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Making your Apartment Doors and Windows More Secure

Posted on October 28, 2011
by aptprepper

In my post Five Free Things You can Do Now to be More Prepared, one of the recommended steps was to evaluate the safety of your home or apartment. If the doors and windows don’t seem too secure to you, now is the time to reinforce them.
Apartment dwellers have the additional challenge of not being able to make major alterations to their structure. Some apartments allow the residents to obtain their own monitored alarm system, while others do not. If you are considering an alarm system, read a previous guest post on Tips to Avoid Fraudulent Home Security Deals. Most leases will not allow you to replace the entire door with a heavier one, as this will alter the uniform appearance of the units. But there are a few things that may be doable.

(Warning: Before making these alterations, read your lease and determine what you can and can’t do. If there is any doubt, check with your landlord-you don’t want to be stuck with a hefty fine or charged against your security deposit for making unauthorized changes.)

1. Secure the door’s strike plate with longer screws. What is the strike plate? The strike plate is the metal part covering the hole in the door frame where the dead bolt enters. Before proceeding, remove one screw and measure its size. The commonly used screws are usually only one inch long . You can reinforce the strike plate by replacing the one inch screws with 3 1/2 inch screws. This will secure the strike plate against the frame. This will not make it completely “kick-proof” but will make it less likely to fall apart with one kick.

2. Install a dead bolt lock. If your lease allows it, replace a flimsy dead bolt with a grade one or grade two deadbolt. It should extend at lease one inch into the door jamb, which is the vertical section of the door frame.

3. Door and window alarms. These are inexpensive door alarm sets that attach to the door frame. When you are inside, you set the alarm. If the door is breached, it makes a loud obnoxious noise. I actually use these and they make a lot of noise when triggered.

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4. Door Stop Alarm If you prefer not to attach anything to the door frame, then try the door stop alarm. Just insert under the closed door, and it will stop a door from being opened. If anyone tries to open the door, the alarm will sound. This will work better in a bare floor, with no carpet.

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5. Secure your Sliding Glass Door. A low-tech, easy and inexpensive way to make your sliding glass door more secure is to place a heavy stick or rod in the bottom tracks of the sliding door. You can have a different size rod for when the door is completely closed or if you wanted to leave it a crack open. As long as the stick is in the track, the sliding door will not open. There are also key locks available for the top and bottom of sliding door, but again, your lease may or may not allow it. I have used this method myself and it does work.

6. Security film on windows. Glass windows can be covered with security film that reinforces the glass. Another type of privacy film can be used on doors that have glass trim or designs, or side lights that are not covered up. This is more for privacy to keep passersby from looking into your house.

7. Leave objects on the window sill that will sound off when moved. Another low tech method is to leave bells or fine china on the window sill that will sound off if anyone tries to enter through the window.
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http://www.tngun.com/wp-content/uplo...d_schoo_3l.jpgHow to Make Dakin's Antiseptic Solution

Posted on October 27, 2011
by David Nash

Dakin’s solution is an antiseptic solution containing sodium hypochlorite (Common Household Bleach) and water. It was first developed during World War I to treat infected wounds.

Dakin’s solution is obviously not the only antiseptic, several stronger germicidal solutions, such as those containing carbolic acid (phenol) or iodine can be used to prevent infection. Unfortunately they either damage living cells or lose their potency in the presence of blood serum. Dakin’s solution does not; its solvent action on dead cells hastens the separation of dead from living tissue

Dakin’s solution is easy to make, and is prepared by passing chlorine into a solution of sodium hydroxide or sodium carbonate.Unfortunately, the solution is unstable and cannot be stored more than a few days.It is used by periodical flooding of an entire wound surface with the solution.

As always, I am not a doctor, and you should research anything you find on line so you are assured of its use and the accuracy of the material presented.

Precautions:

• Keep out of the reach of children.
• Do not swallow it if used as a mouth wash.
• Do not use longer than one week.
• Obviously you should not use this solution if you are allergic to any of the ingredients.
• Stop use of the solution if your condition worsens, or a rash or any other reaction develops.

Call Your Doctor If You Have:

• Pain or burning sensation
• Rash or itching
• Redness of skin
• Swelling, hives or blisters
Signs or symptoms of wound infection

Storage:

• Keep the solution stored at room temperature.
• Cover jar with aluminum foil to protect it from light.
• Be sure the jar lid is tight for storing.Cleanliness is very important to this procedure, sterilize everything, and keep your hands clean. Remember the maxim: you cannot sterilize what is not clean

Ingredients:

• Sodium hypochlorite solution 5.25% (Clorox® or similar household bleach). Be sure to purchase unscented bleach. Do not use ultra bleach products it is more concentrated and thicker.
• Sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)
• Tap Water

Equipment:

• Clean pan with lid
• Sterile measuring cup and spoons
• Sterile jar with sterile lid (see above)

Procedures:

1. Measure out 32 ounces (4 cups) of tap water. Pour into the clean pan.
2. Boil water for 15 minutes with the lid on the pan. Remove from heat.
3. Using a sterile measuring spoon, add ½ teaspoonful of baking soda to the boiled water.
4. Place the solution in a sterile jar. Close it tightly with the sterile lid.
5. Label the jar with the date and time you made the solution
6. Throw away any unused portion 48 hours after opening. Unopened jars can be stored for one month after you have prepared themStrength of Solution is dependent on how much Bleach to water. The following chart is for 32 oz. of water.

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New World Order: Implantable RFID chips capable of remotely killing non-compliant 'slaves' are here

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Positioned as the solution to eliminating identify theft, lost wallets and purses, and a host of other information breaches, the all-inclusive implantable RFID tracking chip is gaining momentum for widespread implementation. Recent news reports indicate that an RFID tracking chip capable of killing humans (that presumably do not comply with rogue government demands) has already been invented.

There is simply no denying the fact that "the powers that be" are working towards microchipping all of humanity. Countless news reports, including those compiled in the following YouTube clip, openly speak of microchips designed for implant into human skin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2LMmwteCA

But what many people do not realize is that this technology exists now, and has already been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in humans. Not only do these chips "silently and invisibly" store and transmit personal data, but they can also be encoded to perform a variety of other functions (http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2004/10/4305.ars).

Beginning at 00:42, the YouTube clip contains a segment on a "killer" RFID microchip that, upon being remotely triggered, can send a lethal dose of cyanide into a person's skin. The FOX News reporter that introduces the segment can be heard saying that the chip "will kill you if you get out of line" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2LMmwteCA).

Later in the YouTube compilation around 04:45, Chairman and CEO of Applied Digital Solutions Scott Silverman, who happens to have a "VeriChip" in his own arm, promotes the technology as useful and beneficial during a CNBC segment. Several of the hosts can be heard questioning Silverman about the "slippery slope" of the technology, and how it could be used to control the world's populations.

The PositiveID Corporation, which produces the VeriChip, has also announced that the Israeli Military recently ordered implantable microchips for its soldiers. The stated reason for this is that the chips will supposedly aid in "disaster preparedness and emergency management" (http://www.rfidnews.org/2011/10/11/positiveid-receives-verichip-order-for...).

Assuming that they will only be used for the benign-sounding purposes that their proponents claim (which is highly unlikely), human microchips are a privacy nightmare that is much worse than credit cards and cash. Because human microchips transmit information via RFID and GPS signals, criminals can easily hijack personal information by intercepting transmission signals.

Sources for this article include:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl2LMmwteCA

http://www.rfidnews.org/2011/10/11/positiveid-receives-verichip-order-for

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Emergency Preparedness Tips For Winter Weather

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October 31, 2011
by Personal Liberty News Desk

The coming of winter each year can bring extreme cold weather, large amounts of snowfall and an increased risk of danger when traveling outside of the home or driving. There are some ways to prepare for these months to avoid disastrous consequences.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), although periods of extreme cold cannot always be predicted, individuals need to stay aware of the weather forecasts each day. Stockpiles of firewood, food and emergency supplies should be assembled prior to the advent of winter. http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/winter/ ... rehome.asp

Older individuals need to realize that it becomes harder to gauge the change in temperature once a certain age is reached, and this necessitates having an easy-to-read thermometer in a home so that the heat can be adjusted accordingly, the government organization reported.

The CDC reported that people should also try to insulate their doors and windows to prevent heat loss and the entry of cold air into a residence.

According to Ready.gov, http://www.ready.gov/america/beinformed/winter.html individuals should remain in contact with their neighbors, shovels should be readily available, and sand and rock salt should be constantly used on walkways and driveways.

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Stay Safe When Order Breaks Down

October 31, 2011
by David Morris

http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...1028_image.jpg Svend Larose hands a bottle of water to a woman rushing to the aid of a fallen protester during the Occupy Oakland protest in Oakland, Calif., on Oct. 25. Police dismantled the encampment in front of City Hall and used tear gas to disperse protesters.

So far, the Occupy events around the country have been relatively benign. Don’t get me wrong: They’ve been horrible for local businesses, a pain in the butt for sanitation workers, irritating for law enforcement and expensive for cities, but they haven’t been anything like what we saw in the Mideast earlier this year.
The people organizing the Occupy events are using advanced psychology and manipulation practices.
People might be dying in their cars in random accidents on their way to or from the protests or dying of drug overdoses after leaving the protests, but none have died at the protests that I know of so far. (Lest you think that the overdose comment is an unfounded low blow, there are about 100 Occupy events across the country, and cases of overdose have been reported at Occupy Wall Street.)
This week, things got a little more interesting. Until this week, for the most part, the worst “violence” has been when sanitation workers have tried to clean up the places where the protesters have been squatting.
Protesters in Oakland upped the ante this week, mostly vandalizing and throwing rocks, glass and paint cans at law enforcement — all the while blaming the police for their actions. The end result is that one protester — whose status I won’t mention out of respect to his 203,000 “brothers” — got a skull fracture because he was hit in the head with what the protesters claim was a tear gas canister but that could have just as easily been something thrown by the protesters.
After more than a month of putting up with the smells, sounds and expense of the Occupy events around the country, cities are getting tired of it and starting to be more active in arresting protesters who are breaking the law. This is causing an increase in arrests, but very little real violence.
Even so, the media love this. They are throwing around words like “riots,” “mobs,” “clash with police” and “violence erupts.” In Atlanta, news crews couldn’t get enough of one protester who walked around with a loaded AK-47. He thought it was his duty to be ready to protect the protesters from police.
But this brings to mind a serious question: How do you protect yourself in a true riot or mob situation? Mob mentality has been causing riotous behavior for thousands of years. Although it’s chaotic, there are things about mob mentality that we can recognize and use in order to keep ourselves safe. One of the most direct ways to do so is to look at and dissect mob behavior. Here’s a quick example that I shared last Christmas and want to share again:

You might have to click on the video twice, depending on your browser

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In this video, we have some great examples of mob behavior. I wouldn’t really call this a “riot,” but it is a good example of a minor breakdown in civil order. I’ve set the video to start 40 seconds in… it’s 44 seconds of “boring and peaceful.” But a few seconds after that, you see someone reach in from the left hand side and take a box before he is supposed to. What happens next is that everyone starts grabbing at boxes. And this is important.

In a riot/mob/breakdown in civil order, there are some key components:

An agitator: Someone who’s increasing the intensity of emotions in the crowd. In this case, both the Wal-Mart employee is agitating the crowd and the crowd is agitating itself with pushing, facial expressions and talking. With the Occupy crowds, it’s usually some of the more intense participants.

An instigator: This is the person who takes the first non-civil action. It could be breaking a window, knocking over a barricade, damaging police property, hitting police, throwing something at police, shooting a weapon, picking out an “outsider” to attack or any other “kinetic” action that affects visual/physical antisocial change on the environment around him.

A trigger: If the crowd isn’t sufficiently worked up, the instigator will be a loner and looked at as an oddball by the crowd. If the crowd is sufficiently worked up, the actions of the instigator will trigger a common response by the parts of the crowd that are most worked up. It’s important to note that the trigger won’t do much unless it’s attached to a bomb. In the case of mobs, that bomb is primal tension, pain and/or rage. In Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria this past spring, people were worked up because of a lack of affordable food. We don’t have that with the Occupy movement at this time.

Aggressive follower: These are the people who won’t start the trouble, but are looking for any opportunity to cause trouble once they think they have immunity for their actions by being part of a mass of people who are breaking the law. This is the antisocial version of several cars speeding together on the interstate in the hopes of not getting stopped. Another example is when a group of pedestrians refuses to cross an empty street when the light is red; yet when a single person starts walking, the crowd quickly follows.

Sheep/Lemmings: These are the people who, once they see the instigator and aggressive followers breaking the rules/laws, will jump in because “everyone else was doing it.” This is when the unacceptable quickly becomes seen as acceptable, and people get caught up in the moment. People who normally obey authority figures suddenly ignore them with reckless abandon.

One example of this occurred at an intense outdoor concert I attended.

There was lots of alcohol, a couple of mosh pits, stage diving and crowd surfing, fights, loud bass, screaming guitars, intense singing, etc. It was fun in the way that being on the edge of a little danger can be fun; it gets the adrenaline going. Two aspects of this concert weren’t so fun and are applicable to this conversation.

First, a girl was crowd surfing, having fun, and the crowd was being respectful with how they were passing her around. Then, when she was about 10 feet away from me, a turd-punk who might have been 18 started violating her. Some other people saw it, but nobody did anything. I pushed through the crowd, grabbed his arm and twisted it violently and was getting ready to strike him. At that minute, one of the biggest humans I’ve ever seen grabbed my hand, shook his head at me, grabbed the punk and threw him through the air like a kid’s rag doll. The kid never would have done something like that in a crowd at a mall or a football game. It was only because he thought he had cover for his actions that he acted so antisocially. The other point to note is that I was lucky that the big guy agreed with my actions and wasn’t a friend of the punk, coming to his aid.

The fact is that you never know who’s alone and who’s got friends in a mob.

Second, a while later, I was at the front of the concert with the crowd behind me and a 4-foot-tall wooden “fence” in front of me. As the main band came on stage, the crowd started surging forward, but there wasn’t anywhere to go and people on the front row were getting crushed — screaming and passing out crushed. I had my arms outstretched against the fence to give my body some room, and the force of the crowd broke the wood in my hands and slammed me against the fence. People were getting pulled over the fence by security, and I eventually went over the fence to get some air, too.

The thing to keep in mind about these two instances is that they were from a fun event. People paid to go to dance, hear bands they liked and get a little crazy. It wasn’t a “protest,” “occupation” or “riot.” It was a concert. The punk-turd-kid was an anomaly and the surging crowd wasn’t malicious, but the results are the same if you happen to be on the wrong end of mob behavior, regardless of what the general intent of the crowd is. A crowd of friends trying to escape a fire in a church can trample you just as quickly as a mob gone crazy.

This next video gets a little more ridiculous, with a headbutt 20 seconds in by a guy in a striped shirt and pushing/pulling that escalates to punching after 30 more seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkHsg7WGcM&feature=player_embedded

So, we’ve seen how Americans treat each other when luxury items are up for grabs. How does it look when survival is really on the line?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBDZ96dtDU&feature=player_embedded

This next video is a perfect example of why decentralized solutions, in the form of individual preparedness, are the only effective ways to survive disasters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMfLQjYLfU4&feature=player_embedded

And one more food riot. This one occurred in Somalia when merchants suddenly stopped taking the country’s official currency. Residents holding Somali shilins that had value the day before were just stuck not being able to buy food for their families. Could this be what things look like here if the dollar collapses?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy178F67ipo&feature=player_embedded

How do you avoid getting caught up in riots and mobs of people trying to get food after a disaster? One of the core fundamentals is to do everything you can now to make sure that you never have to become a refugee and depend on governments or aid organizations to provide food, water, shelter and protection. In short, you want to have the ability to hunker down wherever you happen to be and Survive In Place when disaster strikes. This will give you the luxury of being able to choose to time your escape to a retreat location, or ride out the disaster right where you are when it happens.

And if you do get caught up on the wrong side of a mob/riot?

First, breathe. Take a series of three to five or more deep breaths, belly breaths where your gut extends and your diaphragm gets to expand fully to get as much oxygen in your body as possible. It will calm you down, keep your vision wide and help you make better decisions.

Second, to the extent that you can, join the crowd. I’m not saying to hurt people, but join in their yelling and pumping your fist in the air as you move out of the crowd. It’s similar to what you’d do if you got thrown from a boat in a rapid river: swim with and perpendicular to the current, because a single person going against it doesn’t have a chance.

Third, look for natural seams in the crowd that you can slip through. If you have to push, push with the back of your hand/arm rather than the palm of your hand (it’s seen as being less offensive). If you’ve got someone with you, grab onto them tightly and say something like “We’ve got a bathroom emergency” or “We need to find medical!” to buy some grace as you’re pushing through the crowd.

Fourth, stay on your feet and keep moving. Don’t roll up in a ball on the ground or try to stop. Again, it’s like fighting a raging river. If you’re with other people from whom you don’t want to get separated, hold on hard and tight. If possible, have both people hold onto each other.

The biggest thing to remember is to keep your cool, keep moving and to make a safe exit as quickly as possible.

Do you have any experiences with mobs, riots, etc.? How about with the Occupy events? If you’ve been to them, what different groups did you see represented? (I’ve been to a few, and it’s amazing how drastically the makeup of the crowd changes from city to city, hour to hour and day to day.)

If you have, please share your thoughts by commenting below:

–David Morris

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Obama Issues Executive Order For Drug Shortages

November 1, 2011 by Sam Rolley

http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...rtages_300.jpg The President issued an executive order Monday instructing the FDA to combat drug shortages.

President Barack Obama has taken steps to reduce shortages of prescription drugs needed to treat chronic conditions by issuing an executive order Monday that instructs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action.

According to Fox News, the FDA reported 178 drug shortages last year and an increase in shortages this year. Among the drugs that are most scarce are cancer drugs, anesthetics, drugs used in emergency medicine, and electrolytes needed for intravenous feeding.

The FDA blames the shortages on drug companies’ meddling in supply by discontinuing certain drugs to make room for newer, more profitable alternatives. It also cites manufacturing and quality problems as reasons for drug shortages.

The most recent executive action comes just a week after Obama issued the order implementing the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) and restructuring how students repay student loans without Congressional input.

According to Fox, the President’s increasingly common use of the executive order is seen as a way to make him appear to be a counterbalance against Republicans in Congress who recently blocked his jobs proposal

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Vitamin D3 can help reduce Crohn's disease

Taking supplements of vitamin D3 reduces symptoms of Crohn's disease, the inflammatory bowel condition, according to a small study.

By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
6:30AM GMT 01 Nov 2011
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It found, in 15 people given either a low dose (1,000 International Units) of the vitamin or a high dose (10,000IU), those given the high dose had less symptoms after six months.

The researchers, from Weill-Cornell Medical Centre in New York, concluded: "Our interim analysis suggests that supplementation with 10,000 IU of Vitamin D3 may be an effective adjunctive therapy for ameliorating symptoms in Crohn's disease patients."

The results were presented at the annual conference of the American College of Gastroenterology.

Crohn's disease affects about 120,000 people in Britain. Higher incidence rates are found in countries closer the poles, leading to the theory that lack of exposure to UV light - essential for our bodies to manufacture vitamin D - is a cause.

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Millions of customers were unhappy with their Smart Meters

Smart Meter Removal Has Begun

- Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

California’s Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) has quietly begun replacing Smart Meters with analog meters for citizens reporting adverse health effects. Consumer rights and other groups demanded immediately that their wireless devices be removed from their homes.

Joshua Hart of stopsmartmeters.org reported the good news just as PG&E deploys the last phase of its smart meters in California. The Department of Energy’s promise that the smart grid and smart meters will lower electricity costs has proven incorrect; on the contrary, the utility costs have skyrocketed.

Millions of customers were unhappy with their Smart Meters. They are surveillance devices in homes, without a search warrant, which is a violation of privacy. Fires, explosions, and health issues ranging from nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, headaches, tinnitus, insomnia, and radiation exposure associated with powerful wireless devices that transmit information 6-8 per minute constantly, have plagued the stealthy and deceptive installation.

California’s counties and cities have demanded a stop to smart meter installation and some local governments passed laws prohibiting wireless meters. Nevada’s Pacific Utilities Company (PUC) called for investigation into the adverse health effects and other smart meter issues.

Recently, the California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey assured customers that the utility “will provide for you to go back to the analog meter if that’s your choice.” The problem is that most Americans have no idea how damaging these smart meters are and an even larger group of Americans have never heard of it or see it as a contribution to “save” the planet because that is how these meters were sold to the public.

The tired rhetoric said that the smart grid and smart meters save the planet from doom and gloom, reduce waste by cutting your electricity at peak usage, eliminates the reader who must go to each home to calculate their monthly consumption, reduces your carbon footprint, and it will make the planet “green.” The reality is very far from the disingenuous promises.

Californians’ electric bills have almost tripled and lawsuits ensued.

Marylanders swelter without electricity six hours at the peak of summer and almost freeze six hours in the dead of winter. An analog meter user who insisted on keeping it has to pay $35 each month to have his meter read by the power company. Thousands of customers across the country are having severe health issues from radiation that are not being addressed.
Millions are having issues with the power company selling wireless data collected from their homes via smart meters to third parties. Anybody with a handheld device can capture information from your home and sell it to a third party. The utility company knows if you are home, if you are away, if you are on vacation, which lights are turned on, which appliances, which computers, TVs, and other devices in your home.

Caitlin Phillips of Santa Cruz, Ca, who had suffered severe headaches and other symptoms from her smart meter, became the first person for whom PG&E re-installed on October 28, 2011 the classic analog meter. Caitlin Phillips had told the Wellington Energy installer, a subcontractor of PG&E, that she did not want a smart meter. “When I returned home later, I discovered a smart meter on my house. That night I awoke to severe anxiety, headache, and buzzing in my teeth, and realized the new smart meter was on the other side of the wall from my bed.”

Caitlin received help from “Stop Smart Meters” group who referred her to sources to obtain an analog meter and a person to install it. Her symptoms disappeared immediately after the analog meter was installed.

Caitlin spoke to a commission meeting in San Francisco about her ordeal and, a week later PG&E crews replaced her temporary analog meter with an official PG&E analog meter. Her frustration, pain, and suffering were finally over.

An “opt-out” proceeding is currently overseen by an Administrative Law Judge at the California Public Utilities Commission. “There are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people suffering in their homes from forced ‘smart’ meter radiation,” said Joshua Hart, Director of the grassroots organization Stop Smart Meters!

PG&E and other utilities have responded to health complaints by replacing wireless ‘smart’ meters with digital meters that are “wireless-ready.” These digital meters have been associated with health problems from “dirty electricity” frequencies that pass into a home via the electrical wiring. Digital meters have been rejected by customers who still report health issues after installation. (Joshua Hart)

Susan Brinchman, Director of the San Diego based Center for Electrosmog Prevention, said, “At this point, the burden of responsibility is on the utilities to demonstrate that any new meter they want to install on our homes is safe. Communities have the right to retain analog meters at no extra charge.”

While California is pushing back the not so smart wireless technology, places like northern Virginia are going full steam ahead with the installation.
Dominion Power has completed placing 100,000 smart meters in a pilot phase in three counties.

“There are hundreds of thousands- if not millions- of people suffering in their homes from forced ‘smart’ meter radiation,” said Joshua Hart, Director of the grassroots organization Stop Smart Meters! “The utilities must respond promptly to all requests that analogs be returned. The alternative is that people will increasingly turn to independent professionals to remove unwanted ‘smart’ meters from their homes, a reasonable action we assert is within our legal rights. Protecting your family’s health is not tampering.”

Links:
Stopsmartmeters.org
Lasvegassun.com
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com
video of the smart meter switch

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Estrella Family Creamery

FDA and global elites are destroying food supply and farms

- Dr. Laurie Roth Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Call it what you will. I call it old fashioned evil and communism. The FDA and other controlling organizations are on a roll to create invented crisis, hiding behind contrived safety issues with our farmers and food supply. The bottom line is most clear. The Marxist-Communists in control, Obama and his handlers want to control what we eat, when we eat, what we grow and how we grow it.

I have covered many times on my national radio show, the Agenda 21 push,and sustainability bull rot they are forcing down our kids throats in school. Increased regulations, taxation and imposed laws have required our competent and well meaning farmers to practically slit their own throats. The FDA has been pulling continued, safety issues out of their ‘Rules for Radicals’ play book and shredding our farms and food supply.

Just a few of the untold cases of frivolous assault and control on our farmers:

A few months ago I was the EMCEE and spoke at a conference, which covered the manipulation, funding and dramatic push forward or Agenda 21 and sustainability. While there I met Anthony and Kelli Estrella who own and run the Estrella Family Creamery. They make cheese and have for many years without such a thing as a health concern or incident. In fact their many varieties of cheese have long been the favorite of countless people. Just one of their many happy clients stated:

“I took Kelli Estrella’s cheeses to my James Beard Dinner in New York and the Big Apple will never be the same. Her cheeses were the talk of the evening. She represents the top level of small artisan producers of Washington State like no other. I’m proud to be a representative of her craft.”

Awards received in 2010

American Cheese Society awards:

• Weebles: First in class (Smoked Italian styles)
• Caldwell Crik Chevrett: First in class (Sheep’s or Mixed Milks)
• Jalapeno Buttery: Second prize (Flavored Peppers)

If you go to Estrellafamilycreamery.com you will see countless awards from 2006 onward until 2011. The only reason they weren’t given awards this year is because the FDA shut them down due to the contrived issue Kelli described to me on my show of them using wood shelves that long had been safe. The FDA agent hammered the Estrellas over their use of the wood shelves yet these wood shelves were recommended to them by the #1 affineur in all of France, Herve Mons.

The Estrellas also pointed out that in fact, there is considerable evidence that wooden shelves actually inhibit Listeria. Although Kelli said in one small area there was one small speck of Listeria found well below any danger level. Their business has now been shut down over 1 year as a result of FDA action. The shocking thing is that the Estrellas tried to do everything the FDA said. They brought in some of the very top experts in the country, were willing to implement anything they suggested and racked up $30,000 in legal expenses just trying to work with the FDA. It was to no avail. They then appealed to elected officials and many organizations for help. Their reward was the FDA just placed more barriers to their re-entry into the market. They made it simply impossible. Now, along with incredible suffering they are having to sell off their cows.

These controlling and intrusive actions are happening all across the country against organic food co-ops and dairy farmers. The FDA has threatened Amish dairy farmers and threatened other raw milk producers. What was Communist Russia is now starting to look ‘award winning’ compared to how we treat our people.

Other farmers are labeled as criminals. Michael Schmidt of Ontario is one labeled now as a criminal. He is on a hunger strike at day 33 now. He has operated a small dairy farm for 33 years, providing raw milk to locals by way of his cow-share operation. Once again, his milk has never made anyone sick. Even so, for 17 years he has lived with a constant battle with the authorities over his right to sell milk to the locals. Again, no one has ever gotten sick from his milk. He quotes from the FDAs own site:

• “There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food.”(p.25)
• “There is no ‘deeply rooted’ historical tradition of unfettered access to foods of all kinds.(p.25)
• “Plaintiff’s assertion of a fundamental right to their own bodily and physical health, which includes what foods they do and do not choose to consume for themselves and their families is similarly unavailing because plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to obtain any food they wish.” (p.26)
• “There is no fundamental right to freedom of contract.”(p.27)

So, are the officials in Canada going to let Michael die or give him his right and freedoms back? We shall see.

Kelli Estrella chillingly reminded me that the FDA’s stated goal is to have all raw Dairy banned everywhere by 2020. Apparently it was not enough that the Estrella farm was completely shut down a year ago, but the FDA is still harassing and threatening them even after ruining their business. It’s almost funny in a twisted way if it wasn’t so maddening. The FDA told them they could eat their own cheese but are issuing more violations against them because they fed some of it to their pigs. You can’t make this stuff up in a B movie from hell.

I have news for the FDA, Obama and other global control networks, we do have the right to grow and eat what we want. We do have the right to own property and not be told what or how to grow things. The destruction of Dairy farmers and food providers is criminal and evil. Rise up, pray and stand for the Estrellas Estrellafamilycreamery.com and Michael Schmidt of Ontario Farmtoconsumer.org. You may be next.

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After The Collapse - Who Will Your Neighbors Be?

Brandon Smith
November 4th, 2011
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This article has been contributed by Brandom Smith of Alt Market, an organization that facilitates networking, local community action, and the exchange of knowledge and ideas and promotes decentralization, localism, and the de-globalization of human economic systems.

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Dr. William Stockton celebrates yet another birthday surrounded by family and friends in the midst of a grand suburban paradise. The party is warm, and the evening is filled with joy and merriment. These people singing his praises, laughing and imbibing generous amounts of spirits, are neighbors he’s known for over 20 years. He understands them well, or at least, he thinks he does…

The good doctor, as his neighbors often point out with a jabbing chuckle, is a prepper; a brand of survivalist who participates in the day to day routine of mundane American life while using his spare time to safeguard against unforeseen disaster. His friends view this behavior as an amusing curiosity, an eccentric hobby, but none take it nearly as seriously as William does. It’s not that he is paranoid; far from it. In fact, William Stockton is a professional, a man of sense, and a man of family. He merely lives in an era of great potential danger, where nuclear war and societal collapse are anything but fantasy. Stockton takes these issues into account as an individual, and acts according to the severity of his environment. Much more than his neighbors, he represents legitimate rationality.

Unfortunately for the doctor, and for those who live around him, the days of wine and frosted cake are about to abruptly end as a Civil Defense emergency bulletin blares over the wire. The reality that today’s comforts could disappear in the blink of an eye sets into the minds of the frightened listeners. And soon, we begin to witness the TRUE character of those William once held dear.

This scenario might sound like a familiar consideration to many of us, but for now it remains the stuff of nighttime TV. So begins a rather prophetic and ingenious episode of The Twilight Zone entitled “The Shelter”…

The fascinating thing about “The Shelter” is that it is one of the few short stories showcased in The Twilight Zone (a science fiction program) which hasn’t a single element of science fiction within it. “The Shelter” is terrifying exactly because it is NOT a product of wild imagination, but a representation of social fact that cuts to the calcium rich bone of our culture, even 50 years after it aired on television.

The cold hard truth is, much of our country is completely unprepared for a crisis of any considerable proportion. While the 1950’s and 1960’s held the specter of immediate full scale nuclear war, and thus a highly persuasive incentive for preparedness, the new millennium has hardly been anything to sneeze at. Economic collapse is just as destructive to a nation as an atomic bomb, if not more so. The likelihood of social unrest and the long term implosion of our financial system is greater today than it has been in any other era of American history. So much so that even our currency may evaporate along with our standard of living. Those who prep today are acting in as much a logical fashion as those who built shelters during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The knee jerk conclusion here by skeptics of the prepper lifestyle will be that the bunker owning citizens of the “red scare” days wasted their time. That obviously, there was no nuclear holocaust, and all their careful planning was for naught. Or why not bring up the media generated hysteria of Y2K, which played on the public’s utter lack of general knowledge concerning computers and U.S. infrastructure to inspire a widespread prepping panic?

Did that farce not prove the absurdity of the survivalist mentality?

The answer is no, not really…

The eventuality of collapse is not the issue. Though America today has zero room to maneuver as far as inflationary printing and debt based spending are concerned, and economic instability is inevitable according to the fundamentals regardless of any practical or impractical political measures that could be introduced, the crisis is not our focus. Our focus is, and always has been, independence and self reliance regardless of the circumstances. Through national prosperity, or national pain, the key to survival is to never make assumptions. To never count on your environment to remain hospitable. To keep catastrophe in mind, even if others around you do not.

One vital aspect of survival that often goes unaccounted for by even the most astute preppers, however, is the issue of community. When the last vestiges of normal society crumble, will you be surrounded by friends, or foes? The difference is not always apparent, as Rod Serling noted in the brilliant episode of the Twilight Zone above. The question then arises; how do we know who to work with, who to trust, and when to keep our mouths shut? When the going gets brutal, who will have the guts to stand firm, who will run, and who will stab us right in the back if they get the chance?

Being a prepper for some years myself, and working with a myriad of character types, I have found that certain personality signals and quirks should be addressed in those who live around you, or those you plan to associate with. Certain kinds of people can be pure poison for any survivalist or any organization striving for practical solutions to collapse. Look at your neighbors and your associates carefully and with some objectivity. Do they fit any of the below profiles a little too well…?

The Lemming
This person lives life to the fullest, which by their definition essentially means working 9 to 5 in a job they despise with co-employees they hate, going home to watch reruns of The Apprentice while drinking away the pain of inadequacy, and bathing in the warm oily coconut butter glow of mainstream news before sinking into their soft feather bed of political ineptitude and dreaming sensible dreams of cult-like consumerist mayhem.
This kind of neighbor will likely freak at even the most non-invasive philosophies. Mention of voting for third party candidates (or Ron Paul) draws googly eyed expressions of disbelief, as if you just broke wind at their dinner table. Conversations of possible economic collapse inspire in them reactions of either complete dismissal along with skeptical cackling, or shrugged shoulders and passive solutions. They buy into anyone who happens to be in a position of petty authority, and would jump into a septic tank filled with rusty nails if someone in an expensive suit or a white coat told them to.

In a post collapse situation, this person will immediately look around for the first truck he can find filled with FEMA goodies. If he finds no government handouts are coming and that he is on his own, he will transform from a lackadaisical and humorously obscure human being into a rabid ax wielding (yet still humorously obscure) murdering food stealing two legged weasel. You do NOT want this person knowing who you are and living within 100 miles of you during a time of instability. They WILL show up at your doorstep…

Commonly spoken phrases include:
“I just want to have fun and not worry about stuff like that…”
“If we stay positive, it will all blow over…”
“That could NEVER happen in this country…”

The Rambo-Lite
A real badass…in his own mind. Unfortunately, not all activists make good neighbors for the well grounded prepper. This “survivalist” is all talk and no action. All bark and no bite. His training methods consist solely of You Tube videos, shopping expeditions to Cabelas, and a trip to the shooting range once every three months. He talks a good game, and may lure you into a cooperative agreement by regaling you with his ability to memorize information from Gun Digest, but when the full fury of a financial firestorm is unleashed, he will let you down in the worst way.

Rambo-Lite is like most men, in that he seeks opportunities to prove himself, and to one day, he hopes, be looked upon as a kind of hero. There is nothing wrong with this. However, being usually overweight or out of shape, our little friend is too lazy to pursue the skills necessary to fulfill such a destiny. On top of this, he often has extremely overblown delusions of grandeur, and feels no need to heighten his knowledge. Why train when you already know everything? He is the kind of prepper that makes real preppers look bad.

Rambo-Lite has all kinds of gear, all kinds of advice, but will whine through the night during a cold winter march, never stay on task, never listen to the sage wisdom of those more experienced, and run at the first sign of substantial danger. Ultimately, he is an obstacle, not a comrade. When looking for neighbors who will provide mutual support in hard times, look elsewhere…

Commonly spoken phrases include:
“I don’t care about any of that! I just want to shoot blue helmets!”
“All I need is my hunting rifle and my bowie knife…”
“I don’t need to store food. I’ll just take other people’s…”
“I used to be a navy-seal-air-force-ranger-marine-scout-sniper-jiu-jitsu-master…”

The Cynic On Steroids
As if things aren’t bad enough, some people have to make them worse by constantly pointing out how unavoidably “doomed” we all are, and that the act of survival is in itself a waste of energy. This neighbor is quite aware of the scale of the dangers we face down the road as a culture, but instead of taking proactive measures to prepare and to help others around him, he does nothing, and revels in the thought of widespread destruction. The warped dynamic of the modern American lifestyle has not been kind to this person. Of course, it has not been kind to most of us. Our Cynic reverts to a childish methodology of nihilism because he believes he has somehow been dealt a worse hand than anyone else, and the only thing that will satisfy him would be a hailstorm of napalm across the face of the planet.

Rarely leaves his home to organize with other activists, but when he does, the urge for most people to sink a fist into his scowling face is almost irresistible.

As excited as this guy is to see the world burn, he is actually very afraid of dying. Strangely, like most eugenicists, or members of PETA, in his darkest fantasies, he imagines a future in which nearly everyone meets a horrible gurgling end except himself. Unscathed by the genocide, he skips along his merry way in lush fields of dandelions and bunnies to meet the celebrity woman of his dreams (or any woman who will feel forced to settle because there are so few men left alive).

It goes without saying, this neighbor is not going to be of much service to anyone. Confronted with very real doom (namely his own), and realizing that his dreamworld musings of a day when he will have the Earth to himself are not going to come true, he will blame the closest and most successful preppers around him for his misfortunes. He won’t ask for food, and he won’t try to take it by force either. Instead, he’ll turn you in to the authorities (if there are any left), or, he’ll attempt to snatch away what he can from those people weaker than him (if there are any left).

Commonly spoken phrases include:
“We’re all going to die anyway…”
“They have tanks and predator drones! You’ll be wiped off the map!”
“No woman is smart enough to understand me…”

The Snoop
Ah yes, my favorite! Every neighborhood in America has one of these dastardly specimens. Every apartment building, every city block, every gated community. The Snoop is like the Lemming in that they almost pride themselves on their unwillingness to listen to reason or consider facts, but the Snoop takes this one step further. Not only will you find them sneering at those of us who express independent or anti-establishment views, but they will also go out of their way to bring trigger happy SWAT teams to our doorsteps. These are the people who actually call Janet Napolitano’s “See Something, Say Something” hotline thinking they are good samaritans.
The Snoop has been the mainstay of every tyrannical government of the last century, from Mussolini’s Italy, to Franco’s Spain, Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, Mao’s China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, etc. Today, the Snoop is being tapped by the DHS and the Obama Administration as a resource once again within the borders of America itself.

Snoops fancy themselves amateur detectives. They will ask odd probing questions that seem out of place in regular conversation. They will form superficial friendships that feel even more fake than many neighborhood relations tend to. Disapproval of your politics will be met not with arguments, but with silence, and increasing distance. Snoops reveal themselves through their addiction to gossip. Eventually, you will discover from other neighbors that they slander you constantly behind your back.

Under normal circumstances, this is something to be laughed at and ignored.

But, post collapse, it is something to be very concerned about. Snoops aren’t looking for advantage, like the Cynic. They are looking for vindication, and approval. They desperately want to be a part of a collective, and revile anyone who displays outward individualism. If turning you in, or organizing others against you, will bring them a pat on the head, they will do it.

The Snoop is a coward, and will never confront you directly. But, he or she will try to use the force of the state or the community against you if you offend their twisted world view.

Commonly spoken phrases include:
“We really need to keep our eyes open for terrorists…”
“I hear the terrorists are using white people at bus stations now…”
“Liberty Movement? Isn’t that one of those homegrown terrorist groups?”

The Idle Enthusiast
Some people are absolutely gung-ho about supporting activist projects or organizing for mutual aid, until the situation requires patience and effort.

Then, they disappear from the scene, never to be heard from again. Most movements, especially grassroots movements, are rife with this behavior. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon after its moving at full speed; they don’t want to have to push it uphill. The same goes for prepping...

Getting the Idle Enthusiast excited about the prospect of community growth and survival training is not difficult. Getting him to show up to provide needed assistance is another matter. Without fail, this character will make numerous offers to carry a mission forward, and will fail to follow through on almost every single occasion. After a while, you find yourself astonished when they accomplish ANYTHING, no matter how small the task.

Their prepping list is always half finished, their training is always half finished, and their promises are always half finished. The strain of asking them to apply even the most remedial effort becomes so painful that you’ll begin entertaining thoughts of violent pillow smothering and strangulation.
The Idle Enthusiast is the kind of neighbor who will volunteer for the most arduous projects. At first, they’ll leave you pleasantly surprised, and then, they’ll leave you hanging.

Commonly spoken phrases include:
“Don’t worry bro, I got this…”
“I’ll have that done in no time…”
“Oh man, I totally got sidetracked…”

The smart prepper understands well that going it alone is not an option, at least not for the long term. Thus, we are required to build relationships with those who live near us. If we cannot find enough like-minded souls in our immediate vicinity, then we must relocate to a place where this process is more viable (at least, if we want to survive). Staying put, wrapped in a web of tract homes or city dwellings filled with dangerously unaware and unprepared people is not an intelligent post collapse strategy. Retreat planning without proper group support and indigenous support is not only a logistical nightmare but a surefire avenue to discomfort of the terminal variety.

Think carefully about the kinds of people you want to have around you in the wake of disaster, and the community you plan to participate in after the smoke has cleared. The decisions you make now may be the kind you are stuck with for quite some time through events that will test your endurance and your very spirit. The more friendships we forge today with those who are prepared not just in supply, but in mind, the safer we will all be tomorrow.

The company we keep in the days ahead is not a factor to be taken lightly…

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Family Adventure & Survival Trailer Units Setup and Teardown

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Nov 2, 2011

F.A.S.T. Units (Family Adventure & Survival Trailer) complete setup and teardown.

FAST Units are

- Fully self contained camping and evacuation units
- Supports a family of four for 3-5 days
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Not Available to Americans: New Gold Investment Vehicle Introduced By Royal Canadian Mint

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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
The Royal Canadian Mint has announced that it is making an initial public offering of exchange-traded receipts (ETRs) under the mint’s new Canadian Gold Reserves program. Unlike other gold investment products currently available which only enable the purchaser to own a unit or share in an entity that owns the gold, the ETRs will enable the purchaser to actually own the physical gold bullion which will be held in the custody of the mint at its facilities in Ottawa, Ontario. Unfortunately, the ETRs have not, and will not, be registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933 and, as such, may not be offered or sold in the U.S.

So says The Royal Canadian Mint (www.mint.ca) in a release* which Lorimer Wilson, editor of www.munKNEE.com (Your Key to Making Money!), has further edited ([ ]), abridged (…) and reformatted below for the sake of clarity and brevity to ensure a fast and easy read. The author’s views and conclusions are unaltered and no personal comments have been included to maintain the integrity of the original article. Please note that this paragraph must be included in any article re-posting to avoid copyright infringement.

Says Ian E. Bennett, president and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint:

We believe that this new program will build on our reputation and continued success as a world-class custodian of precious metals. With the introduction of the Canadian Gold Reserves ETR program we hope that investors will see this as a convenient, efficient, and secure method for investing in and owning physical gold.

The net proceeds of the offering will be used to purchase gold on behalf of the initial purchasers of ETRs at the London p.m. fix price on the closing date of the offering which is expected to occur in late November 2011 . Subject to certain restrictions, ETR holders will be entitled to redeem their ETRs for physical gold products in the form of 99.99 per cent pure gold bars or coins, or for cash based on the future gold price or market price of the ETRs.

Subject to market conditions, the initial offering of ETRs is targeting an issue size of approximately C$250 million. The issue price per ETR will be C$20 or the U.S. dollar equivalent and the Per ETR Entitlement to Gold will be determined on the closing date and will be reduced daily by an annual service fee of 0.35 per cent.

Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, the ETRs will be listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and commence trading on the closing date. ETRs will be listed in both Canadian and U.S. dollars and may be traded in either currency.

Through a competitive process, the Mint has selected a syndicate of investment dealers led by TD Securities Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc., and including BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., CIBC World Markets Inc., RBC Dominion Securities Inc., Canaccord Genuity Corp., Cormark Securities Inc., MGI Securities Inc., and Raymond James Ltd. to distribute the ETRs on a best efforts agency basis. The offering is being made on a prospectus-exempt basis pursuant to the terms of an order of the Ontario Securities Commission dated August 30, 2011.

This media release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any offer, solicitation or sale of the securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful.

Note: An investment in the ETRs involves a degree of risk. These risks result primarily from fluctuations in the price of gold. A detailed description of these risks and other important information about the ETRs and the Canadian Gold Reserves ETR program is contained in the Information Statement. A prospective investor in ETRs should review and carefully consider the risks described in the Information Statement, a copy of which may be obtained in reasonable quantities by contacting TD Securities Inc.. ETR holders will have no recourse to the Mint or the Government of Canada for any loss on their investment.

About the Royal Canadian Mint
The Royal Canadian Mint is the Crown Corporation responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada’s circulation coins. An ISO 9001-2008 certified company, the mint is recognized as one of the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an international scale.


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Creating Water Out Of Nothing

November 7, 2011 by David Morris
http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...r114_image.jpgOne way to conserve water is to stop watering your lawn.

Water is one of the most important things you need to consider in a survival situation. I want to share a few thoughts I have on things that can be done on a city or regional level to increase the amount of water that’s available in drought situations. These are measures that can be taken both now and in a grid-down survival situation.

First, plug leaks. The effect of plumbing leaks is incredible. In Austin, Texas, a plumbing company is offering to replace up to 1,000 leaky toilet flappers for free. At a water savings of 10 to 100 gallons per toilet per day, this amounts to a savings of somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 gallons per month. Some places may be able to absorb that kind of waste, but Austin is in what many consider to be the 11^th year of a drought that is expected to last at least another year. This is enough water to provide a gallon per day to between 10,000 and 100,000 people, so it’s potentially serious business.
Second, remove cedars. Another Texas water creation story comes from ranches in the Hill Country of Texas. Several years ago, a friend of mine would buy up ranches that had lots of juniper trees (mountain cedar) and seasonal springs. He would then clear out all of the cedars, which would increase water flow considerably and in many cases cause the springs to become year-round springs. Then, he would sell them for a profit, since land with running water is generally worth more than land with a dry creek bed.

The last paragraph will surely bring up a lot of debate. Getting rid of cedar trees was shown to free up 35,000 gallons of water per year per acre in one Central Texas study referenced here (I am unable to find the original study). The issue that complicates the whole matter is that while cedar trees use up to 33 gallons per tree per day, they don’t use up that much more than other plants and the water “savings” remain in effect only as long as the cedars aren’t replaced by high-demand grasses or other trees.

Regardless, I do see situations where people sitting on 10 to 40 acres and a seasonal spring may want to clear out cedar to increase available groundwater — even if it’s only for a few years to fill a tank or get through a rough patch.

Third, don’t water your lawn. I’m always amazed when I have lived in or visited arid high mountain desert communities at the amount of grass that people have planted and how green it is. It’s not uncommon for people with .2-acre yards to use 15,000 to 30,000 gallons of water per month to keep their lawns looking green in these regions. In areas where the primary grasses die after a week or two without water (instead of going dormant), it becomes a choice between two evils during extended droughts: Spend money on water or spend money on replacing your lawn.

This is why, in many cities across the country, people are turning to rock gardens, wood chip gardens, xeriscaping and planting edible, native, drought-resistant plants in their yards. In some cases, people are making the change because they want to conserve water. In other cases, they have decided that it’s too much hassle trying to make grass grow and stay green when nature seems to have other plans. Still, in other cases, it’s because droughts have caused watering restrictions and dead lawns, and people want to “plant” rocks once rather than spending so much time and money on grass.

What are your thoughts on water and strategies to make more water available for drinking and irrigation? What about gray water recycling? Any thoughts on legislating water conservation vs. personal liberty? Where does my right to spend as much as I want on water intersect with other people wanting water to drink? Are stepped-up prices the answer (the more you use, the more you pay per gallon) or something else? Share your thoughts by commenting below.

As an aside, we changed our clocks this weekend. In addition to using the weekend to change clocks and change batteries in our smoke and CO detectors, we also used it as a time to make sure that our preparedness items are in good shape and make the appropriate changes for the seasons.
Here’s a list of some of the things that we did:

1. Put backup cold-weather clothes in our cars.
2. Made sure that supplies that we think are in our cars are actually in our cars. (I have a habit of wearing shorts and sandals in the summer, grabbing shoes and socks out of the car when we’re away from home and I need them and forgetting to replace them. We have the same habit with backup clothes for the boys and snacks for the boys.)
3. Cycled out all food that was in our cars over the summer and eat or donate it.
4. Checked the batteries in our 72-hour kits and go bags.
5. Checked medical kits. Replaced expired items, items with compromised packaging and items that we used over the past six months.
6. Bought another box of fresh daily carry ammo and shoot the stuff I’ve been carrying.
7. Replaced CR123A Lithium batteries in my daily use lights.
8. Recharged or replaced desiccant in our gun safe.
9. Confirmed that all guns were cleaned and oiled.
10. Did a quick inventory of our pantry to make sure we hadn’t used up stuff without replacing it.
11. Confirmed that go bags and camping backpacks hadn’t been looted during outings.
12. Evaluated goals from the past six months.
13. Made goals for the next six months.
14. Took pictures of or scanned any new critical documents, encrypted them and added them to our thumb drives in our Get Out Of Dodge bags.
15. Evaluated our current state of preparedness in light of what we’ve learned over the past six months and/or what happened to be at the top of our minds at the time.
16. Rotated and stabilized our fuel storage.

Did you do something similar?

–David Morris

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Drug Company To Pay $3 Billion Settlement For Bogus Marketing

November 7, 2011 by Sam Rolley

http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...o114_image.jpgA drug company has agreed to pay a large settlement for its inappropriate marketing of several drugs.

A U.K. drug company has agreed to pay $3 billion to end U.S. criminal and civil investigations into whether it marketed drugs for unapproved uses and other matters.

The company, GlaxoSmithKline PLC, was being probed for its sales and marketing practices for drugs including the antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin, according to The Associated Press. The company was also facing questions about its development and marketing of a diabetes drug called Avandia, which has been withdrawn from the European market and limited in the United States because of increased heart attack risks.

An investigation was begun by the U.S. Attorney’s office of Colorado in 2004 and later taken over by the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts into whether the company was promoting drugs for unapproved uses, and influencing doctors to prescribe them.

The Justice Department also launched investigations into possible inappropriate use of the nominal price exception under the Medicaid Rebate Program, according to The Washington Post.

The $3 billion settlement, which Glaxo says will be paid with its “cash resources,” will be the largest pharmaceutical marketing settlement in U.S. history.

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An All-Star Thanksgiving Potluck

Seven top chefs put their delicious spins on a traditional holiday menu. The result? Your best feast ever.

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by Melissa Clark

Although I have nothing against my family's usual Thanksgiving fare, I do get a little tired of the old reliables. This year, I decided to ask some of the country's top chefs to contribute a recipe to my dinner—a kind of All-Star Thanksgiving potluck, but with me at the stove.

My dream team chef list started with Alfred Portale of New York's Gotham Bar and Grill and Tom Douglas of Seattle's Dahlia Lounge. These two iconic American chefs from opposite coasts provided the meal's centerpiece: the turkey and stuffing, respectively.

For the side dishes, New York chefs Dan Silverman, formerly of Lever House; Jonathan Waxman of Barbuto; and Andrew Carmellini, formerly at A Voce—along with Mitchell Rosenthal of San Francisco's Town Hall—put creative spins on the mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, cauliflower, and green beans my family continues to insist upon. And for dessert, Elisabeth Prueitt of San Francisco's Tartine Bakery enhances the flavor of classic pumpkin pie with freshly ground spices.

The flavors in my dream-team potluck are classic enough to satisfy my tradition-bound family, but different enough to excite us. And that's something we can all be thankful for.

Download a pdf of this menu, including all recipes, shopping list and timeline. http://www.finecooking.com/pdf/PotluckThanksgiving.pdf

The menu

~ Roasted Turkey with Juniper-Ginger Butter & Pan Gravy

~ Rustic Bread Stuffing with Dried Cranberries, Hazelnuts & Oyster Mushrooms

~ Mashed Potatoes with Caramelized Shallots

~ Maple-Tangerine Cranberry Sauce

~ Cauliflower with Brown Butter, Pears, Sage & Hazelnuts

~ Green Beans with Meyer Lemon Vinaigrette & Parmesan Breadcrumbs

~ Sugar & Spice Pumpkin Pie with Brandied Ginger Cream

Menu Timeline

1 week ahead

Make juniper-ginger butter.

Make the cranberry sauce.

1 day ahead

Brine the turkey (morning).

Rub the flavored butter under the turkey's skin.

Toast and skin the hazelnuts for the stuffing and the cauliflower.

Make the vinaigrette for the green beans.

Make the caramelized shallots.

Blind bake the pie crust. Fill and bake the pie. Let it cool completely, then refrigerate.

Thanksgiving morning:

Prep the baking dish for the stuffing, and combine all the ingredients except the broth.

Toast the breadcrumbs for the green beans and combine with the cheese.

Prep the ingredients for the cauliflower.

4 hours before dinner:

Heat the oven to 350°F

3-1/2 hours before dinner:

Put the turkey in the oven to roast.

Take the pie, caramelized shallots, and cranberry sauce out of the refrigerator to let them come to room temperature.

Peel the potatoes and cover them with cool water to keep them from discoloring.

2 hours before dinner:

Add the broth to the stuffing and spread it in its prepared baking dish.

If you have two ovens, heat the second one to 375°F.

Cook and mash the potatoes. Stir in all but 3 Tbs. of the caramelized shallots, transfer the potatoes to a heatproof bowl, cover with foil, and set over a saucepan of barely simmering water to keep warm.

1 hour before dinner:

Put stuffing in the oven. (if you have two ovens, bake it separately from turkey).

Slice the pears for the cauliflower side dish.

Cook the cauliflower dish and keep warm.

1/2 hour before dinner:

Remove the turkey from oven; if the stuffing is in the same oven, increase the temperature to 375°F to finish baking the stuffing.

Make the gravy.

Cook the green beans and finish them with their viniagrette and breadcrumbs.

After dinner:

Whip the cream for the pie and serve.

Shopping List

Fresh Produce:

4 lb. Yukon Gold potatoes

2 lb. fresh green beans

1 medium head cauliflower

1 lb. oyster mushroom

12 oz. fresh or frozen cranberries

2 large ripe pears

5-6 tangerines

2-3 Meyer lemons

1 medium orange

3 bunches fresh rosemary

3 bunches fresh thyme

1 large bunch fresh flat-leaf parsley

1 small bunch fresh sage

1 small bunch chives

12-14 medium shallots

Large piece fresh ginger

2 large cloves garlic

Meat, Dairy & Eggs:

14-lb. natural turkey (preferably fresh)

7-1/4 sticks unsalted butter

2-1/4 cups heavy cream

1 cup crème fraîche

1/2 cup whole milk

1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano

3 large eggs

Other Groceries:

2-1/2 lb. kosher salt

1-1/2 lb. granulated sugar

1 cup black peppercorns

Loaf of rustic bread (1 to 1-1/4 lb.)

15-oz. can pure pumpkin

2 cups hazelnuts

2/3 cup dried cranberries

1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs

2 Tbs. brandy

Whole dried juniper berries

Pantry Staples:

3 cups chicken broth (homemade or lower-salt store-bought)

2-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour

1-1/2 cups packed light brown sugar

1 cup extra-virgin olive oil

1/2 cup pure maple syrup, preferably grade B

2 tsp. ground ginger

Cinnamon sticks

Whole cloves (or 1/8 tsp. pre-ground cloves)

Whole nutmeg

Table salt

Kosher salt

Black peppercorns

Wines for the feast

When choosing wines to serve at Thanksgiving, don't feel that you need to pair each dish with a wine; instead, pick a couple of versatile bottles that will complement the meal as a whole. Avoid too much oak, which would overwhelm the more delicately flavored dishes, and tannin, which would taste bitter paired with salty and cream-based foods, such as the turkey and mashed potatoes. Most important, uncork what you and your guests like.

White ideas: Young, fruity German Rieslings are a good choice. Two favorites:

2007 von Hovel Estate Riesling Balduin, $16
2007 Gunderloch Riesling Spatlese Diva, $22

Red ideas: Try a Pinot Noir with medium acidity, such as:

2005 Heron Pinot Noir, Vin de Pays d'Oc, $12
2006 La Crema Pinot Noir, Russian River Valley, $34

A dessert splurge: Why not? It's the holidays. Match the spiciness of the pumpkin pie with a late-harvest Muscat:

2006 Donnafugata Passito di Pantelleria Ben Rye, $32

-Tim Gaiser, master sommelier

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The Hog Trap/Pen is Complete:

Posted on November 6, 2011 by adminGood morning to all our friends this morning! Thanks for droppin back in to visit!
As you know we started building a hog trap/pen a few days back on account of the dern pigs rooting up our pasture. We can’t let this continue, so…we have built the pen.
For you folks who aren’t familiar with the damage these guys can do to a place, let me just say that it is considerable. A good size group of hogs can literally ruin a place in just a matter of days!
Wild hogs are really becoming a problem here in Florida. They’ve been around down here basically forever, but they seem to be really becoming more and more troublesome as well. Like I say, they can ruin a place in a flash.
Florida’s wild pig population is second only to Texas. That says a mouthful when you consider how big Texas actually is.
Sows can have two litters a year, and each litter may have up to 12 pigs. This is amazing to me when you think about it. Take Miss Piggy of The Muppets fame. I have no idea how many years we watched that show, and I can’t remember even one time where she wasn’t on the show, due to pregnancy leave?? Do you??
Evidently she is an exception to the rule, huh!
Here’s a couple pictures of a good sized boar hog at the ranch in Yeehaw Junction.
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As you can see from our video below, we placed our pen up under an oak hammock. This will give them shade from the summer heat, and actually drop acorns in the pen too. It turned out nice, and the pen should be “just the ticket” in helping us get a handle on our problem here.
Anyway, here’s the video of our finished product.

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Our next video is showing Red’s daughter, and our granddaughter Shelby Lynn. Once we videoed the hog pen she decided she needed one with her in it too. Being she has her Papa and Nana wrapped around her finger…she got her a video! LOL!
Also Corey who works with us is 20. I aggravate him all the time about a girlfriend, so I’m now his “agent” if any of you young ladies are interested! He’s a great kid and a hard worker, so if you girls are lookin for a man, he’d be a good un, cause he’s still young enough for you to train! Send in your request…I’ll send you his number!
Now ole Dale on the other hand has decided he too wants to use “Dub’s Dating Services,” but like I told him…there ain’t many out their older than you still kickin around, buddy. He agreed, but put in his application anyway. He’s looking for an independently wealthy woman, with a good sense of humor. Preferably over 80!!
Shoot, after taking a look at his request of what he’s looking for, I may go through his replies very carefully. It seems what he’s looking for just might appeal to ole Dub too! Yee haw!!

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Closing out today, let’s take a look at another joke sent in by our friend Roger in Virginia. Roger sends me jokes all the time, so this morning I’d like to ask Roger a question…Hey man…ya gotta job?? LOL!
Today’s joke is about…The Perfect Man! I felt this goes good with Corey and Dale in their quest for…a woman! Check out the joke and it just might give you some pointers into a… “woman’s mind!”
The Perfect Man!
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by. He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, ‘Perfect timing. You’re just like Frank.’
Passenger: ‘Who?’
Cabbie: ‘Frank Feldman. He’s a guy who did everything right all the time. Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to Frank Feldman every single time.’
Passenger: ‘There are always a few clouds over everybody.’
Cabbie: ‘Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play the piano. He was an amazing guy.’
Passenger: ‘Sounds like he was something really special.’
Cabbie: ‘There’s more. He had a memory like a computer. He remembered everybody’s birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse, and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman could do everything right.’
Passenger: ‘Wow, some guy then.’
Cabbie: ‘He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never made a mistake. And he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too – He was the perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank Feldman.’
Passenger: ‘An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?’
Cabbie: ‘Well, I never actually met Frank. He died and I married his widow.’
You guys have a great day! God Bless you and yours, and Deb says once more… “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!
Dub and Deb

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SURVIVING IN ARGENTINA
Life in Argentina after the 2001 crisis

About to devaluate: Argentina restricts the purchase of Dollars

Monday, October 31, 2011

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The last measure by the recently re-elected Crisitna Kirchner can only be described as pathetic and desperate. While the “official” dollar price is 4.26, on the street they are selling it for as much as 4.86 if you can find it.

Last Friday the vice president announced that to buy US dollars people will have to show their IDs, their wage bill to determine income, and then go through a background check with the Argentine tax collection office, the AFIP. What was embarrassing was to see that today as people panicked to buy US dollars, the media that is in the government’s pocket explained why people should not worry. One lame reporter tried to explain that which lacks any logical explanation: “ Its like when using a credit card, people. Instead of checking automatically with the credit card company to see if you have credit, here they check you up with the AFIP (Argentine IRS). The AFIP can either authorize or not the purchase. According to what? Wellll… according to anything they want. They check your bank account, your salary, loans, if they even “feel” you shouldn’t be buying US dollars for whatever reason, and that nearly always the case, they just deny it. Lets suppose you’re traveling on business or pleasure and you need dollars or Euros (this goes for all foreign currency) . Now you need to show plane tickets, hotel reservations, and also the AFIP approving you based on whatever they desire as before. As you can imagine, most people get denied. And then there’s the little detail of 50% of the population working on the side for cash and not existing according to the AFIP, those folks they can forget about buying a single dime, ever. I’ve heard that since Friday there has been problems at the usual “caves” and “arbolitos”, black market USD dealers, and the police has shut down the ones that are most known.

Here’s an easy question guys: What do you think will happen with the USD and peso now that the exchange is heavily restricted? Of course, its going to go up like crazy. 1 to 5 exchange rate next month? 1 to 10 next year? Who knows? During the last hyperinflation a certain eminent government minion suggested that people with USD should be shot. Isnt that a wonderful form of democracy? These last desperate measures where expected. Anyone with half a brain cell could see this coming after the election. That’s why I wrote the post titled. “And so it ends for Argentina” just a few days ago.

This is supposed to be a measure to stop the flee of capital. Over 16 billion USD have left Argentina in the past 6 months. Makes sense right? Take this measures after the elections and the big fish, the politicians in the know included, (and those of us that saw this coming) could send their money out. The only one that gets busted with this measure is the working middle class and poor which are trying to protect some of their savings.
I expect heavy restrictions coming for the purchase on gold and silver any time soon.

Ah! That’s what they meant folks! When they said on CNN and NBC that that Argentina’s economy was booming? Its booming, you know, like going boom… like a bomb… like something that explodes and causes mass amounts of destruction.

Read more about it:

Argentina Ups FX Controls to Slow Capital Flight; Risks Seen

Buying dollars in Argentina just got a lot tougher

FerFAL

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Life in Argentina after the 2001 crisis

Thats not a knife, THIS is a knife!

Hi Ferfal,

I’m down here in Buenos Aires at the moment and the other evening a rough looking kid, probably from a villa, approached me and threatened
to stab me if I didn’t give him money. At that point I pulled out my vaquero grande and he nearly pissed his pants and took off.

No one was hurt. The encounter couldn’t have gone better. I just wanted to thank you for the excellent knife recommendation.
Saludos, Ian

Hi Ian, glad it helped. The Vaquero is not only effective, its also pretty intimidating. While I wouldn’t count on intimidation alone, it is a factor that helps, and when it does it may prevent the fight entirely which is great. I had a somewhat similar experience with two guys in a train, just pulled the knife out and they took off. They didn’t have a gun visible and in the South American summer they only had worn off t shirts and shorts, and no visible gun print. (if a bad guy doesn’t pull a gun right away, most likely he’s got nothing)

There was this robbery attempt caught on a security camera some time ago, of a guy with a knife trying to mug another person with a bag. The one with the bag pulled this huge facon knife from his bag, about 10” long. The bad guy had this little pocket knife. The “victim” slapped him around with the flat of the blade. The video clip had no sound but you could guess he was either insulting him or telling him to take off. The bad guy tried to man up but given the Crocodile Dunde moment he took off.

I like the new Vaquero. I don’t own one yet but I can tell the grip has been much improved. The plain edge version is more practical too. The curved edge will take a bit more skill to sharpen but I just love that “s” shaped blade and Nogales clip point.
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The new Espada looks good too. The original one was too expensive for me but the new one is more affordable and practical.

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The Kelly Kettle: How it Works

Thursday, October 27, 2011

We are giving away one of our new Kelly Kettle Base Camp Combos http://beprepared.com/product.asp_Q_pn_ ... sid=ppblog this week. But what is the Kelly Kettle? How does it work? We set out this week to answer those questions in our series "The Kelly Kettle: How it Works". To enter the giveaway, Click Here. http://preparednesspantry.blogspot.com/ ... eaway.html

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The larger, "corked" vessel is actually the kettle that you boil the water in. It is double walled, and the water goes into the angled spout, between the two walls. The center is hollow so the heat from the fire can pass through. This increases the surface area of water exposed to the heat, making it boil faster. The cork allows you to fill the kettle before you leave and transport cold water with you.

The fire is lit in the Fire Base. You can use the supplied can of Fired Up! Emergency Fuel and Fire Starter, or gather sticks and kenneling to light your fire with. Or use a combination of both. As your water is heating up, if you need to add more fuel, this can easily be done through the chimney on top of the kettle.

Below you will find a photo walk-through of using the Kelly Kettle to boil water.

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Everything you need to boil water

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Fill the Kettle with water. The provided cork-and-chain is to help store cold water and transport it to where you are going.

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Fill the Fire Base with your fuel source. Here, we are using 1 cup of our can of Fired Up! Emergency Fuel and Fire Starter. http://beprepared.com/product.asp_Q_pn_ ... sid=ppblog You can also use wood, leaves, twigs, pine cones, etc.

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Before lighting your fuel source, place the Kettle on top of the Fire Base

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VERY IMPORTANT!!!! Be sure to remove the cork BEFORE you light the fuel in the Fire Base. Forgetting to do so can result in explosions. REMOVE THE CORK!!!! The sides of the kettle have these nice hooks, designed to keep the cork off of the ground.

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Point the hole in the Fire Base into the wind to allow adequate air flow. If it especially windy, adjust so only some of the wind will be blowing into the hole.

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Orient the Kettle so that the Spout is pointing into the wind. This will keep ash from the Chimney from falling into your water.

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Light the fuel in the Fire Base, using your preferred fire-starting method.

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As you can see, the chimney goes all the way down into the Fire Base. More fuel can be added by dropping it down the chimney. Be careful to not get burned!

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Your water will boil in about 4-8 minutes, depending on the type and amount of fuel used, the weather conditions, and how full the kettle is

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Once your water has boiled, you will need to remove the Kettle from the Fire Base very carefully. Hold the Handle at a 90 degree angle, so that it is sticking straight out, level with the ground. Do NOT hold Handle above Chimney while on Fire Base. You will burn yourself.

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Now that the Kettle is not over the Fire Base, you can hold the handle above it, like normal. use the cork and chain to tip the kettle (since the sides will be VERY HOT) and pour the water out.

And that is how you use the Kelly Kettle. Stay tuned, because next time we will be demonstrating how you can boil water and cook food with the Kelly Kettle. AT THE SAME TIME!

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Kelly Kettle: How it Works, Part 2

Friday, November 4, 2011

We are giving away one of our new Kelly Kettle Base Camp Combos this week. But what is the Kelly Kettle? How does it work? We set out this week to answer those questions in our series "The Kelly Kettle: How it Works". To enter the giveaway, Click Here. http://preparednesspantry.blogspot.com/ ... eaway.html

To learn how to set up and light the kettle, see Kelly Kettle: How it Works.

Below is a tutorial on how to both cook and boil water at the same time with the Kelly Kettle.

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Assemble the Pot Support, as shown.

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Insert the Pot Support into the Chimney opening. If you have already lit the stove, be sure to use the supplied gripper-handle to avoid burns.

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Light the stove, if you haven't already.

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While your water is boiling, your food will cook. Here we are reconstituting and cooking some Mountain House Creamed Beef.

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If the water in the Kettle boils before you are finished cooking, simply remove the Kettle, and insert the 2 Piece Grill. Be careful not to burn yourself.

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Finish cooking your meal. Enjoy a nice hot beverage from the Kettle while you wait. Then use the Gripper-handle to remove your food from the fire, and enjoy.

So there you have it, folks. Boil water, cook food, everything you need to do in an emergency or while out camping. Do you have a Kelly Kettle yet? What kinds of things have you made with yours?

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The Government Wants to Seize Your Vitamins

November 11, 2011 by Chip Wood

http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...1110_image.jpgThe Food and Drug Administration has drafted a proposal to regulate what it calls “new dietary ingredients.”

No matter how many times you beat back a Federal power grab, it is almost impossible to kill the monster. Like the most terrifying villain in the worst horror movie you’ve ever seen, it keeps coming back to life and threatening the townspeople.

Consider the efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to make it impossible for you to buy the vitamins you want. The FDA first tried to make many supplements illegal in the early 1990s. But its overzealous persecution of vitamin makers (I was one of them) caused millions of consumers to demand that Congress block the FDA.

As a result, in 1994 Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). While the law was far from perfect (what Federal legislation ever is?), it did protect the right to take the supplements of our choice. The only way the FDA could intrude was if it could prove a supplement was unsafe. I don’t know of a single case in which that happened. So for 17 years, those of us who take vitamins to protect our health were safe from government meddlers.

Unfortunately, there was a dangerous loophole in that 1994 law. While supplements that existed at the time were protected by law, the FDA was given the authority to regulate any new ingredients that were introduced after Oct. 15, 1994.

What happened? At first, nothing did. For 17 years, the FDA took no action.

That’s been a good thing, because for 17 years the dietary supplement industry continued to innovate. It discovered new ingredients and formulations and found better ways to extract and concentrate the most effective natural ingredients. As a result, millions of consumers benefited. They protected their hearts and arteries, found relief from joint pain, improved their memory, protected their prostate and much more.

Meanwhile, some deadly dangers did exist. Pathogens like E. coli in food kill at least 2,000 people every year. Acetaminophen, the painkiller in Tylenol and other drugs, is known to kill hundreds more. An FDA researcher estimated that there may have been more than 27,000 deaths linked to the use of Vioxx before the FDA finally took the drug off the market.

Now, the FDA wants to act like the past 17 years never happened. The agency has drafted a proposal to regulate what it calls “new dietary ingredients.” If this proposal is implemented, some of the most effective nutrients you take will be pulled from the market. Nutrients like resveratrol, ubiquinol CoQ10, bacopa, strontium and more.

That’s not all. Under these guidelines, the FDA can define almost anything as a new dietary ingredient. For example:

• If a supplement includes more of an ingredient than was used 17 years ago (even something like vitamin C), it’s new.
• If an ingredient uses a different extraction process (like baking or fermentation), it’s new.
• If a supplement uses an ingredient at a different “life stage” (such as using ripe rather than non-ripe apples), it’s new.
• If a supplement duplicates an ingredient in a laboratory rather than extracting it from the food (even though it’s chemically identical), it’s new.
• And if a probiotic formula includes a strain of bacteria that wasn’t found in yogurt 17 years ago, it’s new.

What would happen to these “new” ingredients? The manufacturers would have to take them off the market until they could prove the ingredients are safe — even if those ingredients have been safely used for 17 years.

What kind of proof is the FDA demanding? According to the guidelines, many companies would have to conduct animal studies using a dosage that’s 1,000 times the typical dose.

I’m not kidding. The FDA wants vitamin makers to do studies for a full year, at 1,000 times the typical dose.

So a fish oil manufacturer would have to conduct a one-year study in which animals are force-fed the human equivalent of 240,000 milligrams of fish oil each and every day. Do you think this outrageous overdose might injure or kill its victim? Of course it could. And that would give the FDA all the excuse it needed to outlaw any product that contained it.

But wait, it gets even worse. If one fish oil manufacturer performed such a study and it passed, it doesn’t mean that other fish oil makers can use the same data. No, sir. They are still required to go out and do their own studies before they’re allowed to sell their product.

These studies are very expensive. A study like the one above typically costs $100,000 to $200,000 to perform. Multiply that by several ingredients in several products and you get an idea of the cost.

Say a company carries six products containing six ingredients each. It would cost between $3.6 million and $7.2 million in studies before that company could even offer the products for sale. For a larger company offering 50 products or more, the costs would be astronomical.

Even if the company did all of that, every penny of those new and higher costs would be passed on to you, the consumer.

Anyone on a tight budget (and that’s almost all of us these days) would find the supplements they rely on becoming prohibitively expensive — if they were even on the market anymore.

Few supplement makers will be able to afford these studies. Many of them will be forced out of business. The ones that remain would still be at the mercy of the FDA. That’s because there are no requirements for the FDA to approve anything. It can approve or reject anything it wants. In the past, it has rejected the majority of ingredients submitted to it.

That means most of the nutrients you buy today will be pulled from the market and never return. Those that do return will be a lot more expensive — or may be available only as prescription drugs.

This is a blatant abuse of power. What the FDA is doing is performing an end-run around the existing law. According to the law, the FDA has to prove a dietary supplement is unsafe for it to be taken off the market. These new guidelines turn that on its head. They are clearly not what Congress intended.
Fortunately, these FDA guidelines have not yet been finalized. All Federal agencies are required to give the public an opportunity to comment on a draft before it is made final. In this case, the FDA has given interested parties until Dec. 1 to comment on the draft. That means there’s a small window of opportunity for you to voice your disapproval.

Frankly, I wouldn’t bother commenting to the FDA. The process is deliberately cumbersome. Those unelected bureaucrats don’t care what you think, anyway.

Instead, please contact the people you do elect: your Congressman and your two U.S. Senators. They have the power to rein in the FDA, and they have done so before — when enough voters complained.

We may not be able to kill the monster, but we can drive it back into its cave. Whether we do is up to you.

Until next time, keep some powder dry.

–Chip Wood

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Baked Ham With Bourbon Glaze, Pork Medallions with Blackberry Sauce, and Bourbon-Chocolate Pecan Pie:

Posted on November 9, 2011 by admin

Good morning folks. How’s everybody today? We’re glad you guys stopped back by to visit this morning, and we hope everyone is doing just fine! Why don’t you all pull up a chair, prop your feet up, and just as soon as I finish “bumpin my gums” this morning we’ll probably fire off a cook stove.
We had a little warm snap, which I could probably better describe as actually, we’ve had a couple cool snaps, then it warms back up again. Whichever, but since the nights have gotten back up in the 60’s, and the days in the 80’s, the grass has started growing a little again, and the okra is really putting out once more.

We’ll have okra until the first frost, so we could still get quite a bit more off them. We planted them back in August from seed, so we were getting kinda a late start, but the production we’ve gotten off it already was more than worth the time and effort, and actually everything else we get from it we consider to be a bonus!

Deb and I picked it last Saturday and we pickled 23 pints. Then yesterday we picked again and we pickled another 29 pints. So we put up 52 pints since Saturday. I don’t know how many we’ve already put up, but it’s considerable. I know we’ve had to have given away at least another 35-45 pints away.
We love it and we don’t know many that don’t, so, it’s going to good use! Matter of fact we’ve got a buddy coming today who ate a whole jar the last time he came by. I had maybe three or four pieces, and he ate the rest.

Deb got us a jar, and we started off sharing the jar and a fork to “stick em with.” Well, once I quit, he took the jar and fork, sat it across from him, and proceeded to “knock the jar out!” The man might eat a dern pickled okra or two! I wonder why he’s stopping by today, huh? LOL!

He’s a great guy though, and Deb and I love him to death. They don’t make em much better than ole Sonnie!

Years ago when he and I met through our business, we started corresponding pretty regularly, and became fast friends. He called one day and requested I fax him over a bid. I asked his e-mail address, and he gave it to me verbally…so, I e-mailed him the bid, and took off again.

Anyway, after 2-3 hours he called once more and asked, “Dub, are you going to send me your bid…I need it pretty quick.” I told him I had sent it to him, to check his mail once more. He says no, he still hadn’t gotten it. I went back, looked, and sure enough, it had been returned…non-delivery.

I called him, and said that he must have not given me his correct e-mail address, and he gave it to me once more. I said, “Sonny, that’s what I’ve got, “so he asked me to spell Sonny. I said, S…O…N…N…Y!

He said , “NO Dub, it’s S…O…N…N…I…E!”

I said, “I, E??? How the heck you expect a fellow to send you a dern e-mail, and you don’t know how to correctly spell YOUR OWN NAME, dad-gummit! It’s Y, not i, e!!”

He laughed and said that that’s how he’s always spelled it. I then told him that it was alright. It’d be easier to teach me how to MISSPELL it, than teaching him how to spell it CORRECTLY, since he’d spent his entire life spellin his dern name wrong anyway! LOL!

Today’s recipes come from the cookbook, “Best Kept Secrets of the South’s Greatest Cooks,” and it comes from the Editors of “Southern Living.” For any of you who haven’t gone through an issue of this magazine, you’re sure missin out. Pick up an issue next time you’re in town and “look into it!”

The first recipe today from Miz Judi’s Kitchen is…Baked Ham with Bourbon Glaze. I figure this recipe to be very good ( I love ham anyway you want to serve it), and after looking at it for a while, I know I’d enjoy this, and the very next ham we bake, this will be it!

I can hear myself sittin at the table now…”Hey Deb, how bout passin me another PINT of that dern glaze…I mean ham!”

Baked Ham with Bourbon Glaze:

• 1 cup honey
• ½ cup molasses
• ½ cup of bourbon

( I’m thinkin maybe they MEANT…a cup and a half!! Lol)

• ¼ cup orange juice
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 1 (6-8 pound) smoked ham
• Garnish: fresh herb sprigs

Microwave honey and molasses in a 1 quart microwave safe dish on HIGH 1 minute; whisk to blend. Whisk in bourbon, orange juice and mustard.
Remove skin and excess fat from ham, and place ham in roasting pan.

Bake on 325 on lower oven rack for 1-1/2 hours or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest portion registers 140 degrees, basting occasionally with honey mixture.

Bring drippings and remaining glaze to a boil in a small saucepan. Remove from heat, and serve with sliced ham. Garnish, if desired.
Roevis McKay, New York, New York.

The cookbook states Mr. and Mrs. McKay have lived in Manhattan for many years, but still feel close to their North Carolina roots. By the way, this recipe is so good, that it is in “Southern Livings, Recipe Hall of Fame.”

Pork Medallions with Blackberry Sauce:

• 2 (1 pound) pork tenderloins
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
• 1 teaspoon coarsely ground whole allspice
• 1’4 cup butter or margarine, divided
• ½ cups diced shallots (about 3 large)
• 2/3 cups dry white wine
• 3 tablespoons seedless blackberry fruit spread
• Garnishes: fresh blackberries, fresh thyme sprigs

Sprinkle pork evenly with salt, pepper, and allspice. Cover and chill 30 minutes.

Grill pork over medium-high heat (350-400) 20 minutes, or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest portion registers 160 degrees, turning pork once. Remove from grill, and let stand for 10 minutes.

Melt 2 tablespoons of butter in a small saucepan over medium-high heat while pork stands. Add shallots, and sauté 5 minutes, or until tender. Add wine; cook 13 minutes or until liquid is reduced by half. Reduce heat to low; whisk in fruit spread and remaining 2 tablespoons of butter. Cook 2 minutes or until slightly thickened.

Cut pork into ¼ inch thick slices. Drizzle blackberry sauce over pork. Garnish, if desired.

Kathy Hunt Dallas Texas

Well, since we’ve already had Baked Ham with Bourbon Glaze, and Pork Medallions with Blackberry Sauce which has wine in it, we might as well insure getting a DUI driving back home, with a dessert that might “put a little pep in your step, too!”

Bourbon-Chocolate Pecan Pie:

• ½ (15 ounce) package refrigerated pie crusts
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons bourbon
• 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate morsels

Fit piecrust into a 9 inch pie plate according to the package instructions; fold edges under, and crimp. Whisk together eggs, corn syrup, butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, bourbon, flour, and vanilla extract, until mixture is smooth; stir in chopped pecans and chocolate morsels. Pour into crust.
Bake on **lowest oven rack on 350 for 1 hour or until set.

** The reasoning for baking the pie on the lowest oven rack is it keeps the crust from becoming soggy.

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Tips on surviving anything life throws at you, from simple job loss to TEOTWAWKI survival.

10 Alternatives to Occupy Wall Street

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I thought I was pretty much done on the subject of Occupy Wall Street but an article today caught my attention. Seems like the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York had actually led to job loss, http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-occu ... rk-eatery/ as opposed to increased economic opportunity as some say the protests were designed to do. And then there was a second article stating that many of the protesters may be closer to the 1% than the 99% http://news.yahoo.com/nyc-arrest-record ... 25415.html yet they are still partaking in the protests just to enjoy the party atmosphere. So for those who want to actually accomplish something of a change in their economic and political lives sans the sleeping outside and protesting just for the sake of protesting part, here's some ideas:

1. Shop local. Skip the Starbucks and make your own coffee at home or patronize a locally owned and operated coffee shop. Spend your money in your community and not with large out-of-state chains.

2. Spend cash or barter. Skip the big banks and spend cold, hard cash while you are shopping local. Better yet, barter for the things you need. A local cash and/or barter economy will do more to improve your local economy than shouting idiotic messages on the streets of New York City.

3. Choose to not participate with big business as much as possible. I say "as much as possible" because while it is simple to move your money from Bank of America or another national bank to a local bank or credit union, it is impossible to find a locally-based cell phone carrier. But you can be aware of how you spend every dollar and spend it where it will do the most good and have the most local impact.

4. Reuse and recycle. Obviously there are many products that you want and need that are not made locally (or even in this country, for that matter). Before you go shopping at Wally World and purchase a cart full of items made in China or Honduras, look at ways you can reuse and recycle these products that are already in the local economy (ie: shop garage sales, CraigsList, and thrift stores first).

5. Cut back. I am a huge fan of minimalism these days. After purging almost everything I owned nearly a year ago (and selling most of it for pennies on the dollar before giving away what was left--about four truck loads), I have realized that the quest to have nearly every single item man has ever made is an exercise in futility. There will always be better deals, there will always be newer products, there will always be more advanced technology...the secret is to buy only what you really need and then use it to death before replacing it. We don't need that much stuff to live happily and the feeling of not being responsible for a mountain of consumer junk it truly liberating.

6. Instead of being against something, be for something. This is a paraphrase from Mother Theresa but the gist is that if you are always fighting against something you really don't accomplish much but if you are fighting for something you are much more likely to see results. You can scream about being against the big agricultural complex but what good will that do? The companies aren't going to shut down just because you tell them to. On the other hand, if you are fighting for cheaper, locally-grown food, you can plant a garden or better yet, start a community garden, and actually accomplish something with all of your efforts.

7. Do the work yourself. We may rail about illegal immigration and big pharma yet we continue to eat vegetables picked by illegal immigrants and continue to rely on big pharmaceutical companies for our chronic illness medications. How about growing your own vegetables and picking them or exercising and changing your diet so you no longer need to medicate yourself into oblivion because of poor health choices?

8. Live as close to the source as possible. I'm not talking about this in a spiritual source sort of way(although that isn't such a bad idea) but by living simply and locally you not only will be healthier and wealthier but you will be more in tune with...life. Why drink bottled water from a municipal tap in a big city when your own water is probably much better? Why buy fish flown in from Asia when you can throw a line in your nearest lake and enjoy really fresh and really local food?

9. Ignore advertising. This is a hard thing to do for many unless you are one of the TV-less crowd since advertising is a constant barrage of messages of which we have been inculcated since birth. The problem is that advertising makes you feel worse about yourself unless you immediately run out and buy the product being advertised. Want women to fawn over you (women that, no offense, wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole no matter what you do)? Then you better run out to a national chain store and pick up a national-brand deodorant and "poof" Playboy-bunny like women will come running to you. Want your kids to be happy (never mind the fact that the food that will make them happy will also make the sick, hyper active and pre-diabetic)? Then you better run out to the store and buy them choco-bunny-breakfast-flakes so they will look as cute and happy as the kids in the commercials. The bottom line is that commercials are selling you a line of BS and if you want to make significant changes in your perception (and ratchet it back somewhere closer to common-sense normal) then you need to ignore these psychologically manipulative messages and think for yourself.

10. Challenge everything. Just because you aren't protesting doesn't mean you can't challenge commonly held beliefs. Start asking why. Start asking if there is a better way to do something that the status quo. Start making changes in your life that the "Joneses" wouldn't understand. Just because something has "always been that way" doesn't mean that you have to "go with the flow" and be just like everyone else. Yes, it is easier to do that as it takes very little effort but it also lulls you into a false sense of security and it has been proven to have quite a few negative affects that people (sheeple) don't realize until it is too late. My grand dad would be rolling over in his grave if he saw how people so willingly gave up their freedoms just to fly on an airplane (in his case, he probably would have learned how to fly and just flew himself...he was an ornery as his old bull when someone/something got his dander up and any sort of taking away his freedoms would do just that).

Eventually the Occupy Wall Street people will dwindle away but if you want to do something with staying power and if you want to do something that will make legitimate, concrete changes that will impact your life, you need to take control of your life and your self and put your efforts into being/making the changes that you want to see.

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11 Trunk Essentials for Winter Preparedness

By Angela, on November 7th, 2011

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Winter is fast approaching if its not upon you already. Time to update and rotate the car emergency kits! With winter driving in particular in mind, here are the 11 essential survival items to have in your trunk:

1. Water. If the water is kept in a box/tote/etc. in your trunk, it actually doesnt freeze as quickly as you might think it would. Open the bottles and pour a bit out, then re-close them if youre afraid of them freezing and bursting.

2. Food. Think high protein, something filling. Maybe one of these homemade survival bars. Or the commercial types. Jerky would be good also. Keeping some food in your belly will help keep you warm and provide energy if youre stuck or have to hike out of somewhere.

3. A way to make fire. Waterproof matches, a lighter or two, fire starters, whatever you need to be able to get a fire going.

4. Blankets. Youll probably be pulling these out even if there is no emergency, but for sure youll be glad you have them if youre stuck on the side of the road in the winter for even an hour! The thrift store is a great place to look for used wool or other warm blankets.

5. A good knife and/or multi-tool. There is nothing so sacred about your vehicle that you couldnt use parts of it to stay alive. But how are you going to cut your car seats and seatbelts into modified snowshoes without a good knife?

6. A shovel. Slide off the road into a snowbank and a shovel can mean the difference between being stuck there and digging 3 feet of snow out of your way and getting back on the road.

7. Gloves. Some sturdy, warm, work-in-able gloves would be best.

8. Light. There are fewer hours of daylight in the winter and the chances of something happening when its dark out are pretty good. Keep a good flashlight handy and make sure the batteries are charged or fresh.

9. First aid kit. Important stuff. If you can help yourself or your passengers before medical help arrives, youre that much better off.

10. Communications. Keep your cell phone, CB, or ham radio charged and in the vehicle with you. This doesnt need to be in your trunk it will probably up front where you can get to it and use it easily. Help may be just minutes away if you have a method of contacting someone.

11. Spare tire, jack, and tire iron. This should be a given to be in your trunk, but check your spares air pressure, make sure you know where your jack is and how to use it, and make sure you have a way to get those lug nuts loosened and tightened back up! Changing a flat tire in the snow is no fun, but it would be better to have the means of getting it done and getting back on the road than having to wait for someone to rescue you.

Just a few items in your trunk can mean the difference between a miserable, possibly life threatening experience on the road and coming out alive and well. Nows as good a time as ever to get those winter supplies in the trunk, especially before you start that holiday traveling!

How about you? What would you add?

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Baxter, same company that unleashed tainted avian flu vaccines, recalls 300,000 flu vaccines for serious adverse reactions

Thursday, November 10, 2011
by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Baxter Healthcare Corp. has announced it is recalling roughly 300,000 doses of its Preflucel influenza vaccine due to what it says is an excessive number of adverse events. Baxter is the same drug company that was caught inserting Avian Flu Virus into flu vaccines back in 2009 (http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html).

The UK's Daily Mail reports that a high number of individuals injected with an apparently tainted batch of Preflucel have been reporting side effects like fatigue, muscle pain, and headaches. The vaccine, which was crafted specifically for those with egg allergies, has only been in use since March when it was first approved for use in the UK.

"The vaccine is being recalled because these side effects have been reported more frequently with this specific batch," said a Baxter spokesmen. This spokesman also attempted to reassure the public that those who have already been vaccinated with Preflucel "should not be concerned (for their safety)."

At the same time, however, Baxter has instructed healthcare providers not to administer any more Preflucel, no matter what batch it came from, to patients. And since this announcement, many European countries where the vaccine was distributed have ceased using it, and have instead switched to various alternatives.

"[Preflucel] should no longer be used and any remaining stock [of the recalled batches] should be returned to the original supplier for credit," announced the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. "No further Preflucel of any batch should be administered at this time."

Conveniently for Baxter, no further information has been provided to the public as to what might be the cause of the uptick in adverse reactions. And if the vaccine is so harmful that the company has decided to recall several hundred thousand doses of it and cease all further administration of it, how can officials say that those who have already been injected with it are safe?

The 2009 scandal involving the US division of Baxter essentially exposed the company as a purveyor of biological terrorism. After all, the company's Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) facility where the tainted vaccine was produced would have prevented unintentional contamination, which implies an intentional conspiracy (http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html). So what dirty little secret might Baxter be trying to hide with its current recall?

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$433-million smallpox drug deal: A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract

No Fear, Indeed

- Michael Oberndorf, RPA
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Late breaking, but hardly surprising, corruption news, reported by the ever-so-liberal Los Angeles Times, no less:

“Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal: A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may not exist”.

It seems that in spite of being caught flat footed and red handed pouring taxpayer dollars into failing, mismanaged, Democrat-donor run “green” energy company, Solyndra, the Obama-Soetoro Gang threw caution to the wind, and engineered a highly unethical, and perhaps also highly illegal deal for another fat cat Democrat donor.
Siga Technologies is run by one of the richest men on the planet, ranked 52nd richest in 2010, and thus, clearly a One-percenter, billionaire and long-time Democrat and big donor, Ronald O. Perelman. Funny how many big Democrat donors are the very super-rich Jews the anti-Semitic Occupy “movement” degenerates hate so much. But I digress.

Siga was trying to get a contract to sell the government 1.7 million doses of smallpox vaccine, but ran into some major problems. For example, their drug is experimental and has never been tested on humans, so no one has any idea of whether or not it works. Then, there’s the fact that smallpox was eradicated, wiped out, back in 1978, except for small samples kept locked away by the Russians and us. And to top it off, Siga wanted $255 per dose, for a total of $433,500,000.
For us, as taxpayers, another huge question is why this came up at all. It seems that the government already has a stockpile of a billion dollars worth of $3 per dose of a vaccine that is known to work. With only a vague and extremely remote possibility that somehow a terrorist group might get their hands on live smallpox virus, a possibility regarding which the LA Times reports, “There is no credible evidence that any other country or a terrorist group possesses smallpox,” it looks as if this is a needless project to begin with. Even before they rigged the deal so Siga and Perelman would get it, this thing stank like month-old fish.
Apparently several other companies put in bids significantly lower, so the Obama-Soetoro Gang changed the rules making Siga the only bidder under a sole source procurement. Amazing how easily government regulations can be bent and twisted, when the benders and twisters are powerful Democrats. One wonders, too, where money for this patently political payoff was supposed to come from? Yet the Obama-Soetoro/Reid/Pelosi cabal demand that we continue to raise the debt ceiling, when it should be obvious to even the most willfully blind that vast majority of the money is going into the pockets of their fat cat and big union puppet masters.
The outrageousness of the Siga boondoggle illustrates another, very significant point. The Obama-Soetoro Gang is not afraid of us. They pulled this rip-off of the taxpayers right out in the open. They seem to believe their own propaganda and lies about Tea Party members and ordinary Americans. They think we’re too stupid to catch on to the fact that they’ve been looting our treasury for the past three years. Unlike the Mafia, they have not even tried to make it look legitimate. We need to put an end to this. Now.
Since the spineless parasites infesting Congress refuse to stop the spending (read, looting), we need to find another way. I have reached a point where I can see very valid, justifiable reasons for not paying our taxes anymore, at least not to the government. They have left no doubt in the minds of reasonable Americans that the more we give them, the more they will steal and give to their cronies, their partners in crime, as the Siga incident aptly illustrates. However, it would be very difficult for them to do much to us if millions of us were to deposit our taxes in escrow accounts, thus showing good faith, rather than criminal intent.

If, as, and when, law and order are restored, i.e., we return to government by the Constitution, the money will be there to pay for repairing the damage these traitors have done. If not the money can serve to put into force the sentiments expressed so long ago, in the Declaration of Independence:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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Keep Food Reserves Safe In A Crisis

November 14, 2011
by Peggy Layton

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Keep long-term food storage in a locked room.

I have heard people jokingly say that they don’t need extra food reserves because they have guns. They casually say, “I will just come to your house.” I believe that people will do whatever they have to do to get food for their family. How will we protect the food reserves we have worked so hard to purchase, store and secure?
We really need to think about this question. Where would be the safest place to store food, water, extra clothing, cash and other necessities? We need to protect these things not only from bugs, rodents and other animals but from looters as well.
Precautions You Can Take To Protect Your Food Investment
I read a true story about a woman who came home from work and found one of her neighbors hauling out bags of groceries from her kitchen pantry. The neighbor was unemployed and financially strapped, so she broke into the house next door and took their food. She was caught and charged with burglary. She was put in jail and is being prosecuted. As times get tougher, more people are going to be unemployed and will do whatever it takes to feed their families; looting will become more prevalent. Many good people will be suffering the consequences of not being prepared with food reserves.
If you have food reserves, I caution you to take stock of your current situation and decide where you should keep your emergency food. Some of the food you purchase needs to be rotated, such as canned goods, dried eggs, powdered milk and perishables like winter squash, potatoes and other vegetables. The food with the shortest shelf life needs to be accessible so it can be rotated and used faster. I suggest you keep long-term food storage in a room that has a lock and key. It might be necessary to lock it with a dead bolt. Hide an extra key somewhere that you will be able to get to in a disaster. Tell your family how to access the food. If someone comes to you asking for food, you can give it out as you wish and not have it taken from you by looters.
Many people have guns to protect their families and themselves from predators and looters. All guns and ammo must be kept locked up as well in a gun safe or a locked room.
I think locking up all emergency survival items is very important. Keep in mind that if there was a crisis and you needed to get to your stockpile quickly, you must be able to find the key easily.
I have friends who keep their food in basements; others keep their food in metal storage containers. Most people keep their food in their kitchen pantry and probably would not be able to make more than a few days’ worth of meals if they had to. We have a root cellar with a food-storage shed on top of it. I also keep food in our basement, in the pantry and in the garage. Wherever you decide to keep your food reserves, you must guard them like you would any other valuable asset.
I believe everyone needs a heavy-duty safe that can be bolted to a cement floor from the inside. I have some friends who went to Hawaii for a vacation. When they returned home, they were shocked to find their safe busted open in their back yard and all their valuables, including $8,000, gone. The safe had been in a bedroom closet. Had the safe been bolted down properly (from the inside) to a cement floor, the thieves would not have been able to take it.
Why Should We Store Food Reserves and What Are We Preparing For?

• A disruption to food production resulting in food scarcity.
• Rising fuel prices, which can result in trucking strikes.
• Harmful outbreaks of bacteria that cause foodborne illnesses.
• Loss of jobs due to rising unemployment.
• Loss of homes due to foreclosure.
• Natural disasters due to changing weather patterns, which include droughts, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and freezing ice storms.
• Hyperinflation.
• Terrorist attacks, social unrest, anarchy and war.

There are a lot of good reasons to store food. Food in the pantry is better than money in the bank. I believe in a food savings account. If the banks have any kind of problems, we may not be able to get our money out. What will we do? Some of our savings is better off being in a food savings account in our pantry or basement. Food reserves bring a sense of security and peace of mind. I like being self-reliant. It gives me independence, freedom and a sense of security that if needed, I could take care of myself and my family for an extended period of time — especially if there were no grocery stores open and no one else to turn to.
My reserve of food is a form of starvation insurance. This type of insurance holds its value. Once you pay for it and put it away, you can still eat it. It could save someone’s life.

• Did you know that 2 percent of the population of the world grows the food and 98 percent of the population depends on that food? That is true dependency.
• In Africa during the summer of 2011, more than 29,000 children under the age of 5 died due to malnutrition and starvation. Children in America are also going to bed hungry. What would happen if the welfare system shut down due to lack of funds? What would government-assisted families do?
• I worry about my seven children and their families and how they are going to make it financially in hard times. They don’t have the finances to purchase the extra food. I encourage them to stockpile extra food, but it just doesn’t seem to be a priority. Some live in apartments, some are in college, some are newly married, some have young children, and some have new homes with high mortgage payments.
• Millions of Americans are losing their jobs because of the economic situation our Nation is experiencing. Some people still have jobs, yet can’t even afford food to feed their family. Three million people in the United States are unemployed and will go from the workforce to the welfare lines this year. This can happen quickly to anyone.
• Millions of Americans are losing their homes as a result of mortgages being overinflated. Making mortgage payments will soon be the last thing on the minds of Americans. The No. 1 thing on people’s minds will be where they are going to get their next meal. We are in the midst of an economic crisis that is devaluing the American dollar and could turn hyperinflation into monetary collapse.

The National Inflation Association predicts that by the year 2015, the U.S. dollar will lose all of its purchasing power and empty grocery store shelves will be common in America. For every economic problem the U.S. government tries to solve, it always creates two or three much larger problems in the process.
Families will need to help each other. Multiple generations of families might need to live together. Young adults might need to move back home with their parents to avoid being homeless. Every parent should store for himself first and then for his extended family members that might need help. Then, store extra for their friends and neighbors in need. This will take sacrifice and focus. A food savings account builds over time, just like savings in a bank account does.
Long-Term Food Reserves
http://plimages.blob.core.windows.ne...read-image.jpgI have mentioned many times before in previous articles that I am involved in a company called eFoods Global. The company changed its name to Go Foods Global. It is a way of announcing their products as an on-the-go, just-add-water type of food. The food can be stored long-term, it can be shared with others, or it can be served tonight for busy families. These foods are quick fix meals. Everything is in the pouch. You just add water, cook for 20 minutes and it is done. The food comes in Mylar® pouches and has four servings per pouch. They are sealed with oxygen absorbers in the pouch, which makes this a long-term food product that will last on the shelf for 15 years.

• New products that were announced at the national convention: instant stick packs of Kona Coffee, Orange Passion Green Tea and Tropical Energy Drink. The new entrees are Thai Coconut Noodles, Santé Fe Fiesta Rice and Creamy Tuscan Pasta with Sundried Tomatoes.
• The other entrées that are available are 3 Cheese Alfredo Pasta and Cheese, Au Gratin Potatoes, Beef Stroganoff, Chicken Cheddar Rice, Hearty Chili with Cornbread Dumplings, Seasoned Mashed potatoes, Vegetable Beef Stew, and Wisconsin White Cheddar with Pasta Shells.
• There are breads such as Pancake Mix, Southern Buttermilk Biscuits, Whole Wheat Bread, and Cornbread Muffins.
• The breakfast items include Almond granola and Natural Oatmeal.
• The soups include Cheddar Broccoli, Chicken Noodle, Potato Cheddar, Southwestern Tortilla, Sweet Corn Chowder and Western Potato Chowder.
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Survival Tips: Winter Storms And Power Outages

November 14, 2011
by Personal Liberty News Desk

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A recent storm that tore through New England dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas and left hundreds of thousands without power for several days. This type of weather event is not rare during winter months and citizens should be prepared.

The Associated Press reported that some residents outside of Hartford, Connecticut, were still without power, eight days after the storm passed through the region. http://www.courant.com/news/local/state ... 4237.story

In the event of a severe winter storm, individuals may want to have gathered the necessary tools and supplies. These include backup generators, a battery-powered or hand-cranked radio, flashlights, a supply of extra batteries, stores of nonperishable food and adequate amounts of water, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. http://blog.fema.gov/2011/11/colder-wea ... pared.html

The agency reported that when the power does go out individuals should turn on their generators outside, in order to prevent carbon monoxide exposure. Doors and windows should be kept closed as much as possible in order to prevent heat loss from a residence.

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Gardasil Horror - Schoolgirl Sleeps 23 Hrs Day After Jab

Girl, 13, left in 'waking coma' and sleeps for 23 hours a day after severe reaction to cervical cancer jabs

Lucy Hinks is unable to walk or talk after having injections at school

Parents warn others to check on potential side effects of Cervarix vaccine

By Paul Sims
Last updated at 8:41 PM on 14th November 2011
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Bad reaction: Lucy Hinks, 13, began to experience extreme exhaustion soon after having the cervical cancer vaccine alongside classmates

They were told the vaccine had few side-effects and would protect their daughter from cervical cancer.
But Steve and Pauline Hinks are convinced the controversial HPV jab is behind their daughter Lucy’s mystery illness which is making her sleep up to 23 hours a day.
Tests have so far ruled out a brain tumour and glandular fever and the 13-year-old’s paediatric consultant is investigating potential links with the vaccine Cervarix.
The jab was used in a national vaccination programme which started in September 2008. But it has already been linked to several cases of girls displaying severe side-effects.
Before she received the vaccine, Lucy was perfectly healthy, had an excellent school attendance record and was among the top students in her year.
But just weeks after she received the third dose of Cervarix in May this year she began to feel exhausted. By July she had lost a stone in weight and was sleeping almost round-the-clock.
‘Some nights I’ve been so worried that I wake several times to make sure she’s still breathing,’ said her mother.
‘I was concerned about the potential side-effects because Lucy had a severe reaction from the MMR vaccine.

‘But I was reassured by the school nurse that side-effects were extremely unlikely. We feel betrayed because, like most parents, we trust the health authorities with our children’s lives.’
Mr Hinks, a health and safety manager at the Pirelli tyre factory in Carlisle, said: ‘We are desperate to find some sort of treatment which will give us back the daughter we had before.

HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS (HPV)

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• Almost all cases of cervical cancer start off as an HPV infection.
• There are more than 30 types of HPV. The virus is typically transmitted through sexual contact.
  
• 80 per cent of women will contract a form of HPV by the time they reach 50, most forms are harmless.
• Two of the types, numbers 16 and 18, are responsible for 70 per cent of cervical cancer cases.
• These two strains are treatable with HPV vaccines which are 98 per cent effective.
  
• The other types of HPV are not preventable with the injections, which is why women must still have regular smear tests.
  
• Only 5-10 per cent of women infected with the virus face the risk of the disease developing into cervical cancer.
  
• This process usually takes 15–20 years.

‘We have to keep hoping that recovery will be soon.’
The vaccine is given to girls aged 12 and 13 in a nationwide programme which followed clinical trials in 2005 on more than 18,000 women under 26.
Parents who do not wish their daughters to have it must opt out. The vaccine is most effective when given to girls before they become sexually active.
In the first year of the nationwide vaccination programme more than 2,000 girls in the UK had health problems after being given the jab.
Jackie Fletcher, from pressure group JABS, called for the vaccine to be abandoned until it can be established beyond doubt that it is safe.
She said: ‘There have been some real horror stories. After the injection, suddenly they’ve got things like chronic fatigue syndrome.’
A spokesman for Cervarix’s manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline, said the company took reports of adverse reactions very seriously and added: ‘The UK medicines safety agency regularly reviews all suspected adverse events and had concluded that no new or serious risks have been identified during the use of Cervarix in the UK and that the balance of benefits and risks remains positive.’
Robert Music, director of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, said: ‘If year on year take-up of the vaccine continues to be around 80 per cent the incidence of cervical cancer could be reduced by two-thirds in women under 30 by 2025.’
Her parents fear it could be years before she recovers. They now care for Lucy - who has lost nearly three stone - around the clock and describe their lives as a 'living nightmare'.
The couple, from Port Carlisle, Cumbria, are urging parents to find out about the potential side effects of the vaccine, Cervarix.
Their warning comes as thousands of year eight pupils prepare to receive the vaccine in schools.
Mrs Hinks said: 'I would not wish what we've been through on anyone.
'I've not seen the whites of Lucy's eyes for weeks and nobody can tell us when it will turn.
'I would urge parents to get all the facts, gather as much information as you can. Decide for yourself if it's right for your child.'

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She added: 'I could put up with the constant sleep. I believe her body needs it.
'But it's the fact that to me she's in a waking coma, with no treatment.
'At first we didn't pay any major attention to it. We were only aware there was something seriously wrong this July.'
Lucy, a bright scholar at Nelson Tomlinson School with a gift for maths, had her third and final instalment of the vaccine in May.
Soon afterwards, she started displaying signs of exhaustion.
'Then she got up one weekend,' said Mrs Hinks. 'She shouted for me, she was too exhausted to stand.'
Initially, Lucy's GP found her spleen and liver were enlarged. Then, after the teenager collapsed in the doctor's waiting room, she was taken to Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary.
She was submitted to a barrage of tests over the weeks to come, including those for glandular fever and a brain tumour. But these failed to find any cause.
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Later in the summer, Lucy was again admitted to hospital. This time she was unable to walk at all.

Mr Hinks said: 'She had been able to limp from the settee to the toilet herself.
'But suddenly she couldn't take a single step. She lost her balance, her arms and legs were failing.

'We got a letter from the consultant at the hospital. It says it's quite possible that this might turn out to be a reaction to the HPV vaccine.'
Mrs Hinks, who gets up to her daughter through the night, said: 'At one stage I thought she was going to die in her sleep.'
Recently, the family installed a stairlift to take Lucy from her bed to the living room sofa.

'I bring her downstairs because she's part of the family,' said Mrs Hinks. 'I want her down here and hope that subconsciously she can hear something of what's going on.'

They have rigged up an electric bell which Lucy presses when she needs pain relief.
'She can whisper five words,' said Mr Hinks, who uses a microphone to help make out Lucy's barely audible syllables.

'She says "hurting, toilet, tablet, water" and, most of all, "mum".'

Mr and Mrs Hinks spoon feed their daughter her lunch and dinner. Meals must consist of soft food, because chewing takes precious energy.
The couple said doctors are now 95 per cent sure Lucy's diagnosis of ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is correct.
Mrs Hinks has revisited the decision to allow Lucy to have the vaccine many times.
'I have regrets,' she said. 'But it's no good having them because you can't change what we've got. Hindsight is a marvellous thing.'

Though neither has any criticisms of the local vaccination programme, Mr and Mrs Hinks are now urging parents to make sure they have as much information as possible before making a decision.
'Talk to people about it,' said Mrs Hinks. 'You decide, not the Government, whether it's right for your child.

CERVICAL CANCER JAB CONTROVERSY

The NHS initiated its UK HPV immunisation programme in September 2008.

The HPV jab is available on the NHS to those aged between 12 and 13 years old. Many are immunised at school.
Vaccines are delivered in three shots over six months. They do not have any therapeutic effect on existing HPV infections or cervical lesions which is why girls are vaccinated before they become sexually active.

The vaccine cuts the risk of cervical cancer by about 70 per cent
Of the four million vaccinations carried out over the programme's first two years, there were 4,445 reported side effects.

• 1,669 reported 'injection-site reactions' for example a sore arm.
• 1,013 reported allergic reactions, most were rashes.
• There were 3,591 'other recognised reactions' including 631 cases of nausea and 629 headaches.
• There were four cases of Guillan-Barre Syndrome, which can lead to paralysis. Although the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency notes: 'There is no evidence that the vaccine has increased the frequency of GBS above that expected to occur naturally in the population'.
  

None of the deaths or serious health problems which have followed immunisation has been directly linked to the vaccine - but it has been known to trigger undetected health problems.

Some critics also believe that the HPV injection can give teenagers a false sense of security, encouraging them to be more sexually active because they no longer have to fear cervical cancer.

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Guerrilla Warfare Gardening 2: Toils no Trouble

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Barbara H. Peterson

Farm Wars Outdoor Garden 2011

With the last cabbage processed, this season’s outdoor gardening and food processing project is officially over. That is, all except for soil prep for next season, when we let the geese and goat in the garden to eat the leftovers, then spread the horse manure. Then, it’s all about enjoying the fruits of our labors, and telling the corporate veggie distributors to take their pesticide-laden produce and… well, you know the rest.

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This is our fourth year gardening in the high desert, and I’ve got to admit, we messed around and got it right this time. We have enough in the freezer for the year, and the garden fed us and the critters with fresh produce all during the harvest.

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Brian planted and hand watered the garden morning and evening. We both weeded and harvested, and I processed. Processing consisted of cleaning, trimming, blanching, chopping and freezing, as well as some drying. We both collect seeds.
Here are pics of some of the bounty (cabbage, onions, beets, radishes, spinach and zucchini). We had carrots also, but I forgot to take pics of them. The garden area was 60 X 80:


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If we can do this, so can you. If you don’t have any land, get with someone who does and see if you can work out a deal to use a bit of it for growing food. I lent out a portion of mine this season as a training garden for a neighbor. If you can grow your own food, you will not starve.
Don’t wait. Start your garden today. Make plans to nourish your family with good, wholesome food that you can grow yourself. Get rid of the lawn and plant a Guerrilla Warfare Garden instead. And if zoning permits, get a milk goat. A goat and a garden will keep you alive and healthy through any food crisis.

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30% US Drinking Water Has Parkinsons-Causing Chemical

Exposure to industrial solvent 'can increase risk of Parkinson's disease six times' Chemical is banned in food and pharmaceutical industries but is still used as a degreasing agent

30% of U.S. drinking water supplies believed to be contaminated

By Anthony Bond
Last updated at 4:10 PM on 14th November 2011
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Famous: Former boxer Muhammad Ali is one of world's best-known people to suffer from Parkinson's disease

A global team of scientists are hailing a major breakthrough in finding a significant link between exposure to an industrial solvent and Parkinson's disease.

A team of scientists from the U.S, Canada, Germany and Argentina found that individuals who had been exposed in the workplace to trichloroethylene (TCE) were six-times more likely to develop Parkinson's.
Due to concerns about its toxicity, the use of TCE in the food and pharmaceutical industries has been banned across much of the world since the 1970s.

However, the chemical is still used as a degreasing agent.

Dr Samuel Goldman of The Parkinson's Institute in Sunnyvale, California, who co-led the study published in the journal Annals of Neurology, told the BBC: 'Our study confirms that common environmental contaminants may increase the risk of developing Parkinson's, which has considerable public health implications.

'Our findings, as well as prior case reports, suggest a lag time of up to 40 years between TCE exposure and onset of Parkinson's, providing a critical window of opportunity to potentially slow the disease before clinical symptoms appear.'

Parkinson's disease is caused by a loss of nerve cells in part of the brain.
It can results in limb tremors, slowed movement and speech impairment.
Researchers wanted to look at the impact on people of exposure to six different solvents, including TCE.

The new findings was based on analysis of 99 pairs of twins from America, one twin with Parkinson's and the other without.

Scientists looked at the work history of the twins as well as hobbies and interests, so they could calculate their exposure to solvents.

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Diagnosis: This image shows a brain scan of a person suffering with Parkinson's disease

In the past TCE has been used in glue, carpet-cleaners, paints and dry-cleaning solutions.

It is still used as a degreasing agent for metal parts.

It is also estimated that 30 per cent of U.S. drinking water supplies are contaminated with the chemical.

Dr Michelle Gardner, research development manager at Parkinson's UK, told the BBC that more research needed to be carried out to look at the link between solvents like TCE and Parkinson's.

She added: 'This is the first study to show that the solvent TCE may be associated with an increased risk of developing Parkinson's.

'It is important to highlight that many of the previous uses of this solvent have been discontinued for safety reasons over 30 years ago, and that safety and protection in work places where strong chemicals such as this solvent are used has greatly improved in recent years.'

Two other solvents - perchloroethylene (PERC) and carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) - were also found to pose a significant risk of developing the disease if people were exposed to them.

There was no link found with the three other solvents examined in the study - toluene, xylene and n-hexane.

PERC is used as a dry-cleaning agent and degreasing agent.
CCl4's major use in the past was in the manufacture of chlorofluorocarbons for use as refrigerants.

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Organization Reports Antibiotic Overuse, Warns Of Consequences

November 17, 2011 by Sam Rolley

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Some Americans are taking too many antibiotics and the drugs may become completely ineffective if the trend continues.

New research indicates that people throughout the United States—especially in the Southeast— heavily overuse antibiotic drugs, which may accelerate the rate at which the drugs become useless as bacteria develop resistance to the medications.
The research, conducted by Extending the Cure, found that between 1997 and 2007 the number of antibiotics prescribed on the whole actually fell by about 12 percent, but the number of people who misguidedly take too many rounds of antibiotics rose. The overconsumption of antibiotic drugs is “alarmingly” higher in the Southeast when compared to States in the Pacific Northwest, the research says.
Among States with the highest antibiotic use in the Nation are West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Alabama. Extending the Cure contends that the high usage rates stem from patients demanding antibiotics from their doctors for illnesses caused by viruses, like cold and flu, which are not eliminated by antibiotics.
According to the research, the consequences of antibiotic overuse create a destructive cycle. Antibiotic resistance among bacteria increases—the drugs are already about seven times less effective against E. coli—so doctors prescribe more powerful antibiotics. The cycle accelerates until the drugs, no matter how powerful, might ultimately become completely ineffective against the resistant “superbugs” that the World Health Organization says these pharmaceuticals will help to create.

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EPA targets families that generate heat off the grid using traditional wood-burning stoves

Thursday, November 17, 2011
by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Traditional wood-burning stoves are still one of the most cost-efficient, sustainable, and renewable sources of energy production that families can use to heat their homes. But the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not a huge fan of them, as was evidenced by its recent decision to push those who use traditional models to convert to EPA-approved -- and oftentimes much more expensive -- alternative models.

Throughout history, civilizations have relied on the burning of wood to cook food, warm water, and heat places of dwelling. After all, trees are an abundant and renewable source of wood, which means that the costs associated with obtaining energy and heat from burning wood are minimal. This, of course, is why many cash-strapped folks today are turning to wood-burning stoves rather than their local utilities.

But the EPA is now expressing concern about the 80 percent-or-so of wood stove users that still rely on non-EPA approved models. Most of the wood stoves manufactured before 1990 do not contain the EPA's certification stamp of approval which, in the eyes of the agency, means they are an unnecessary contributor of excess environmental pollution.

This is debatable, of course, as EPA-approved models can still emit excess smoke just like the others, and may not necessarily provide any pollution-reducing benefits at all. Because of their altered designs, many of the new EPA-approved models do not work as well as the older models, either, especially when used in severely-cold weather http://www.energybulletin.net/51578

Most wood-burning stove companies in the US actually went out of business shortly after the EPA established its original certification requirements for wood stoves back in the 1990s. Many of the companies simply could not develop a complying product that actually worked. Today, the EPA is once again revisiting these New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) guidelines in order to push even more people away from the old stoves.

At the same time, EPA spokeswoman Alison Davis recently tried to whitewash the agency's position against wood stoves by claiming that the EPA is "not in the business of telling people how to heat their homes." No, it is actually in the business of restricting the types of wood stoves manufacturers are allowed to produce and sell, which ultimately does tell people how to heat their homes by robbing them of their freedom of choice.

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HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE BEFORE FDA GHOULS ARE HELD ACCOUNTABLE?

By: Devvy
July 14, 2008
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The American people have grown up with so many federal alphabet soup agencies, they've become immune to the dastardly deeds done by these unelected officials - except when it hits their home. When I refer to the FDA, I don't mean the Federal Drug Administration, I mean the Federal Death Administration. This agency derives its jurisdiction from treaties and has been getting away with destroying people's health for decades, and in too many cases, the result is death. The FDA is nothing more than another out of control agency answerable to no one. It needs to be abolished. While I was still writing news items for NWVs back in 2004, I wrote a piece on Donald Rumsfeld and aspartame. The mail came flooding in with accusations that aspartame was perfectly safe because the ghouls at the FDA said so! I followed up the deluge with a column under my own by-line; Aspartame Concerns - Junk Science, Quack Doctors?

Dr. Betty Martini has been a pioneer in exposing the devastating effects of ingesting that deadly chemical. Naturally, she's been attacked on a regular basis as have doctors and scientists who have studied the effects of aspartame on the human body - particularly the brain. Anyone who dares expose the truth which cuts into the profits of the big pharma houses is persecuted by the ghouls at the Federal Death Administration. Many are political prisoners for doing nothing more than trying to naturally treat their patients.

This is especially true for the multi-billion dollar a year cancer industry; see The Cancer Research Money Machines. Since I wrote that column almost two years ago, more "safe" drugs and treatments, given the stamp of approval by the Federal Death Administration, have proven fatal. Let's start with Gardasil, a new, deadly vaccine that I've covered in previous columns:

July 3, 2008. From the Desk of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: Judicial Watch Uncovers Shocking New FDA Documents Related to Gardasil

"Those of you who regularly read this column know that Judicial Watch has taken the lead in exposing the ugly truth about the dangerous side effects associated with Gardasil, the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV) currently being administered to young girls.

"Well this week, we released a special report based on new "adverse event reports" and other information obtained from the FDA under the Freedom of Information Act. These reports document 10 reported deaths since September, 2007. (The total number of death reports is at least 18 and as many as 20.) The FDA also produced 140 "serious" reports (27 of which were categorized as "life threatening"), 10 spontaneous abortions and six cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome - all since January 2008. Here are a few excerpts from the documents we uncovered. The rest can be read in our report. (Warning: These descriptions get very graphic.)"

July 7, 2008. Should parents worry about HPV vaccine? "7,802 "adverse event" reports to CDC since Gardasil was approved. Reports claim drug caused nausea and paralysis -- even death."

Only after enough Americans die or thousands have their health destroyed, does the FDA pull some of these dangerous drugs:

October 8, 2007, FDA pulls Drug for Stomach Ills Is Pulled From the Market: rug for Stomach Ills Is Pulled From the Market: Zelnorm...Arthritis Drug Bextra Pulled: "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today requested Pfizer recall arthritis drug Bextra (valdexocib) and change the warning label on Celebrex (celecoxib)...Parkinson's disease drug pulled from market: "The FDA pulled a Parkinson's drug from the market after reports of heart valve damage in more than a dozen patients. Pergolide is sold under the name Permax and is believed to raise the risk of heart valve damage by 20 percent." "FDA Okays Stomach Drugs Prilosec And Nexium, For Now. Diabetes drug should be pulled over heart risks, FDA scientist says; Avandia."

How about the widely popular, HRT (hormone replacement therapy) drug, Prempro, found in the government's own study to increase a healthy woman's risk of breast cancer by 24%, stroke by 41% and heart attack by 29%?

April 24, 2007. 70 women 'die each year from cancer after taking HRT. "But the UK-sponsored Million Women Study now suggests HRT resulted in 1,300 extra cases of ovarian cancer between 1991 and 2005. Of these women, 1,000 died of the disease."

2008: Wyeth, Pfizer ordered to pay $27 million in punitive damages. "A Little Rock, Ark., federal jury found Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and Upjohn (a Pfizer unit) liable for $27 million in punitive damages to Donna Scroggin, who sued the drug manufacturers in 2004 after developing breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy. The award includes $19.3 million from Wyeth and $7.7 from Upjohn.

"Wyeth manufactures Premarin, an estrogen replacement, and Prempro, which is a combination of estrogen and progestin. These, along with Upjohn's Provera, which contains progestin, are commonly prescribed to treat the unpleasant effects of menopause....About 25 million American women use hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to ease the discomfort of menopause. There are about 5,300 similar cases pending across the country for Premarin and Prempro."

Here's a news flash: These dangerous cocktails are still on the market and being prescribed! I've never taken any form of HRT and am truly thankful I listened to my friend, Dr. Lorraine Day, 14 years ago. The 25 million women who use HRT's in this country just might be 'concerned' they will end up dead from breast and/or cervical cancer. I don't understand why anyone would take these drugs once you read the side effects: "Long-term treatment with Prempro may increase your risk of breast cancer, heart attack, or stroke." To help with hot flashes? Perhaps women should try natural supplements (Evening Primrose Oil, Dong Quai, Black Cohash) and a good 100% Mexican Yam progersterone cream for hot flashes. Okay, I have to give the disclaimer: I'm not a doctor nor am I making a medical referral here. I wouldn't want the Nazi's from the Department of Fatherland Security to charge me with some federal crime, i.e., prescribing natural supplements without the approval of the ghouls at the FDA.

People ask me all the time why can't Americans see what's happening in this country? Why the apathy? Well, a number of reasons: ignorance of the facts, blind loyalty to their political party; they take our freedoms for granted while distracted by meaningless past times likes sports and the mall, as well as being poorly educated on the history of this constitutional republic. I also believe it's because we have a nation of sick and dying people by the millions who are incapable of analyzing the big picture. Americans have been ingesting deadly chemicals into their bodies for decades, courtesy of the FDA. Aspartame is dangerous to your brain; please read this important warning. Aspartame is in most commercial yogurts, diet soft drinks and thousands of food products.

What about fluoride?

Germans and Russians Used Fluoride to Make Prisoners Stupid and Docile

"While a member of the Communist Party, I attended Communist underground training schools outside the City of New York.. Here, under the tutoring of Eugene Dennis, M. Sparks, Morris Chyilds, Jack Kling and others, we were schooled in the art of revolutionary overthrow of the established Government. We discussed quite thoroughly the fluoridation of water supplies and how we were using it in Russia as a tranquilizer in the prison camps. The leaders of our school felt that if it could be induced into the American water supply, it would bring about a spirit of lethargy in the nation; where it would keep the general public docile during a steady encroachment of Communism...We discussed in these schools, the complete art of revolution: the seizure of the main utilities, such as light, power, gas and water, but it was felt by the leadership that if a program of fluoridating the water could be carried out in the nation, it would go a long way toward the advancement of the revolution." Oliver Kenneth Goff, 1957

Americans have been drinking this deadly poison for almost as long as I've been alive. I stopped drinking any tap water 41 years ago; I don't even give it to my dogs or cook with it. A couple hundred million Americans brush their teeth with it everyday, it's in most commercial mouth washes and dentists use it on their patients. So, you have mass ingestion of aspartame, cooking people's brain and destroying their bodies while enriching the big pharmaceutical companies for more drugs to treat the results of aspartame poisoning! Douse the masses with fluoride to make them apathetic, lethargic and unable to resist. In other words, little better than cattle, controlled using the herding technique. I hate to put it that way, but I also hate what's been done to my fellow Americans. Yes, without question, certain drugs and vaccines are safe and they have benefited mankind in remarkable ways. But, that does not excuse the shoddy science being used by manufacturers who cover up the results and then get bad drugs approved by their coconspirators at the FDA.

One emailer, Captain Bobby, kept sending me requests to expose what he calls a lyme disease epidemic. He asked me with deep frustration in his emails why I wouldn't expose this and how people like him are suffering 24/7? If I wrote ten columns a day, eight days a week, I couldn't cover the thousand cuts killing this nation and our people. However, in the mini-master file discussed below, I have included credible information on lyme disease -- including denials that it's even a problem!

Then, there is the real danger from the chemical cocktails being dropped on this country called chemtrails. I've done many columns on this human and environmental disaster; new material is included in the mini-master file discussed below.

There isn't room in this column to list all the articles and studies I have been saving, so what I've done is put them in this mini-master file for you to read over the weekend or when ever you can. Nothing is more important than good health. For you and your family. Also, I strongly recommend you listen to Dr. Sherry Tenpenny during a recent interview on KAJO Radio during the Carl Wilson show. Sherry is an expert regarding vaccines and your right to say no. Every parent in America needs to read her columns and listen to this interview. I have four brothers and sisters. Like our parents, the only vaccines we had were smallpox, diphtheria and polio. I also made sure my daughter received only those three. Thank, God.

How many more Americans will die, have strokes or suffer life long medical problems from deadly chemicals and treatments approved by the FDA? These poltroons in Congress who also own stock in pharmaceutical companies, continue to pass legislation to protect their big $$ donors and dividend checks, while parents try to cope with sick or dying children they love so much. Do you not cry for them? Congress has given these drug peddlers immunity more times than you can imagine to protect them from lawsuits. Look at the hundreds of billions of dollars in settlements, enriching lawyers like former presidential candidate, John Edwards, after these drugs given the "safe" label by the FDA, turned out to be a killer or laid low thousands of Americans by stokes and heart attacks?

Is the head of the FDA (past and present) ever held accountable? NO. They just resign and move on to another lucrative job if there's some heat. How about their lackeys? NO. You can sue the federal government, but it's a nightmare. Why should we the people continue paying taxes for settlements when the people who caused the problem (FDA) are never held accountable?

The honchos at the FDA who do the approving of these deadly cocktails walk around with impunity because they know from past history that these cowards in Congress will not hold them accountable. I believe at the very least, the head of the FDA and his underlings should be indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy to commit murder, reckless disregard for human life and any other charges a grand jury in any of the 50 states can find that applies -- if you could get jurisdiction using the same legal basis as Bugliosi did in his book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. It's a slam dunk the corrupt Federal Department of Justice under Attorney General Michael Mukasey, won't lift a finger for justice for the victims.

The FDA pulls these deadly drugs off the market - AFTER people like my brother have a major stroke that almost kills him (VIOXX). Then, the head of the FDA goes back to business as usual and power lunches in DC with his big pharma house buddies and is NEVER held accountable. I say it's long past time these people are held accountable in the criminal justice system. Giving these unelected officials immunity after wreaking such death and destruction on the American people cannot and must not be allowed to continue.

This will NOT happen if the American people vote back in the same incumbents who have done nothing to stop the FDA's madness other than more meaningless hearings. Change cannot happen with the same players. In the meantime, dangerous drugs are still on the market and unsuspecting Americans will die or their health destroyed, requiring them to spend even more money for the pharmaceutical companies (pills) to "treat them." Don't you think it's time to hold Congress and the FDA officials accountable?

Learning links:1 - Master mini-file diseases
2 - The FDA Has Blood on Its Hands
3 - Drugmakers go furthest to sway Congress
4 - Forced mental health screening
5 - Lawsuit (2000): A good look at what's been going on

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