Why Oil Isn’t “Down” and Why it Will Keep Going Up

 

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Today we discuss the so called “drop in oil prices to 108 dollars a barrel”, why it isn’t a real drop and why prices will continue to rise.  Tune in today and hear

• The first five winners of our listener appreciation contest
• My warning for South Florida and Hurricane Ike
• The effects on oil no one is talking about
• Why the drop isn’t a drop and Wall Street knows it
• The reality of the “movement” of oil prices between 2005 and 2008
• How small adjustments by U.S. consumers have major impacts on oil prices
• What “oil speculation” really is an its’ minimal impact
• The China effect no one is talking about and why they are not buying much oil for now
• The reality of capacity and demand
• The effect of “profit movement” between exploration, refinement and retail
• The decline of the Cantarell oil field and others
• The effect of the Cantarell decline on Mexico and how it will impact us
• The myth that we “buy all our imported oil from the Arabs”
• Why you shouldn’t start celebrating the new “low gas prices”
• The hidden effects and manipulation of “price point psychology”
• Why our available imported oil has dropped by 1.2 million barrels a day and is getting worse

Resources for Today’s Show

• Market Oracle on the Cantarell Oil Decline
• Forbes on The China Oil Surplus
• How Oil Speculation Works

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

Why We Prepare - The Lesson of the Grasshopper and the Ant

 

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Today we discuss why survivalists are "preparing" in the first place.  Starting out with an old fable we tell the original version of The Lesson of the Grasshopper and the Ant and move on to seven threats and how the prepping for them all is quite similar.

Tune in today to hear…

• How we have changed the classic tale of the Ant and the Grasshopper and how it has impacted America
• The real threat of depression or recession
• The reality of a true eventual economic collapse
• The impact of "climate change" independent of man’s part in it
• The fact that "normal climate" is a myth and the little "perfect bubble" we have had for two centuries
• The impact potential of pandemic flu or some other form of pandemic
• The impact of regional weather disasters
• The threat of a Tsunami on both our east and west coasts
• The eventuality of "peak oil"
• How "Preppers" are not crazy and why what we do makes sense
• The contributions of the "tin foil hat brigade" and how even they are not totally crazy
• The reality that preparing for all the above threats is very similar

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

The Pistol Caliber Carbine in Survial Planning

 

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Today we discuss a variety of concepts around “pistol caliber carbines” with an over view of various options and models from several manufacturers.  Tune in today to hear…

• What makes a “carbine” a carbine vs. a rifle
• The advantage of light weight
• The advantage of inexpensive practice afforded by pistol calibers
• The lesson of “the man that carries only one gun”
• Practicing and striving for excellence
• The ease of learning to shoot a pistol caliber carbine well
• The advantage of a “lighter report” from pistol caliber carbines
• The advantage of small, lighter ammo
• Thoughts on the Marlin 1894
• Thoughts on the Hi-Point 995 and 4095
• Thoughts on the Kel-Tec Sub-2000
• The Ruger Deefield Carbine
• The amazing NEF Handi Rifle (not a true carbine but many of the same advantages)
• Thoughts on calibers including 9 mm, 40 S&W, 45 ACP, 45 Colt, 357 Magnum, 44 Magnum and more
• 40 S&W plus carbine length barrel yields 10mm pistol balastics
• A special very quite load for 44 magnum carbines

Links and Resources for Today’s Show

• Hi-Point Firearms
• The Hi-Point Forum- Good Folks “gun snobs” are not welcome
• The Marlin 1894
• Marlin Forum
• NEF Handi Rifle
• NEF Handi Rifle Discussion Group - Excellent Group of folks, good info on the Handi Rifle
• NEF Barrel Program
• The Kel-Tec SUB-2000
• Ruger Deerfield Carbine - They do still make it, exceptional gun!

My Special 44 Special Load for Quiet Carbine Use

This is a 44 Special Load from an older Lee Manual.  Do NOT reduce any further!

300 Grain Lead Bullet
Standard Large Pistol Primer
9.8-11.5 grains of H227

I settled on an even 10 Grains of Powder.  In a 20 Inch barreled 1894 Marlin 44 Magnum it is quieter then most Break Barrel Pellet guns and will penetrate 7 inches of solid pressure treated lumber at 25 yards and is accurate to about 50 yards before the low velocity takes over and drop becomes extreme.

Similar loads should be possible for rounds like,

357 Mag - Try light 38 Spc Loads
45 Colt - Try Cowboy Action Loads to start out

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

The “Green” Green House - A Self Sufficient Microclimate

 

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Today we discuss creating a green house that is designed to be a self sufficient microclimate via the use of alternative energy tactics.

Tune in today to learn about…

• Using a rain catch system in a green house to provide its own irrigation needs
• Creating and automated watering system to make your work load lighter
• Using solar powered fans to cool your green house in the hot times of the year
• 12 Month a year Green House usage
• Using a more conventional roof with “skylights” and the advantages of that
• Using solar attic fans as a self contained cooling system
• Building with expansion in mind
• Learning the basics with a small project for use on a large scale
• Using solar screens to decrease warm weather temps
• Combating climate change (up or down) with a green house

Resources for today’s show

• Solar Screen Material - Not an endorsement up or down for this supplier they just have a good assortment of colors and options.
• Solar Attic Fans - Again not an endorsement up or down for this supplier just a decent assortment of fans to explain what I was talking about.
• Video with a Cool Rain Catching and Irrigation System - Not for a green house but the rain catch and distribution system may give you some great ideas. The rain water system is shown from about 10 minutes to about 18 minutes in if you don’t want to watch the entire video.
• Green House Fan Systems - Again not an endorsement simply provided as a resource to give you some ideas

Thoughts on the Differences between Permaculture and Agriculture

 

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In today’s show we talk about land stewardship and permaculture as a true form of investing for the future. I also do a brief bit on politics today. A simple question, “how does Barak Obama define middle class income?”, as in give us a number. Second a bit on on John McCain’s pick of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his V.P. running mate.

Please Note - I made a correction on todays show in audio and spliced it in but it will also be repeated here. For some reason I referred to Governor Palin as “Kathryn Palin” which of course is a mistake, her name is actually Sarah Palin. The fact that I podcast while in traffic during a commute sometimes may result in such errors, when I catch them I aways make every attempt to correct them.

Tune in today and here my thoughts on…

Briefly on the Election

• What’s up Obama, please give us an income figure for the term middle class
• Hey you too McCain, no politician should be able to say, “lower income”, “middle class”, etc with out numbers to go with them
• How the selection of Sarah Palin could almost guarantee a woman president in 2012

On the Main Subject

• The main difference between permaculture and agriculture
• Ideas for permaculture beyound tress and bushes
• Where wild game fits into your permaculture plan
• Handing down a family legacy with permaculture
• Growing grapes for sale to local wine makers
• Using permaculture crops to improve the quality of land

Resources for Today’s Show

• Sarah Palin’s Positions on the Issues
• 6000 Pounds of Food on a tenth of an acre

Five More Lies that Attack Individual Freedom and Liberty

 

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Today’s show expands on yesterday’s and gives you five more lies that most American’s believe to be true. No conspiracy theories or tin foil hat concepts here. This stuff is all wide open and easy to verify as fact by reading simple history and looking at current realities.

Sorry for the background noise in today’s show, while I think the audio is over all much better my mobile studio seemed to attract every semi truck on the highway today.

Tune in today to get my thoughts on,

• The lie that the “governments role is to solve the problems of the people”
• How ridiculous the concept of a “government that would solve individual problems” would be in a discussion among the Founding Fathers
• The lie that “America is the freest nation in the world”
• One thing that you can do in many countries that will get you arrested at gun point in America
• The lie that we need to “spend more on national defense”
• The fact that the U.S. spends more money on our military then the combined military budgets of every other nation in the world combined
• The reality that the U.S. economic system is now best defined as fascist
• The lie that it is “normal for the price of goods and cost of living to continually rise over time”
• The effect of having a false paper currency backed by nothing and what a 1935 silver quarter still buys today
• The lie that “politicians should be experienced”
• How a government of “career politicians” have destroyed our freedom, yet not had to live with the consequences of their decisions as private citizens
• Why a Kansas farmer, Texas rough necker or Detroit auto worker would all be better as our senators then the people we have in office today

Resources for today’s show

• The system of Economic Fascism
• Lew Rockwell on Fascist Economics in America
• The You Can Survive Podcast about having to register small live stock - are we really that free?
• The Video about it being a “We are a nation of consumers and there is nothing wrong with that” - why not comment on that video at YouTube and tell them how full of crap they are?
• Topix Discussion of a woman arrested for selling beer in her own home (no, not to minors) - I feel safer now don’t you?
• Robert Kiyosaki on the value of gold and silver and effects of inflation on paper money
• Robert Kiyosaki on why prices go up and why it is not normal

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

Five Lies that Attack Individual Freedom and Liberty

 

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Today’s podcast covers five lies that have been marketed to people by both industry and government and how they take away individual liberty and national freedom. This show is a long one but these were some things I feel honestly called to speak about and I have a great deal of passion for them.

I know many listeners are more interested in practical preparation but one can not separate survival mentality from individual liberty. Where as the sheeple follow the government and seek solutions from them, the individualist knows that he or she is the master of their own fate.

Today’s podcast may challenge some of your beliefs and might even make you angry at times. That just means is isn’t the same old - same old. Tune in to get my thoughts about,

• The lie that “its a consumer driven economy and there is nothing wrong with that” and how it is driving people and our nation into the oppression of debt.
• The lie of “no child left behind” and that “everyone should go to college” and how it is destroying our economy and making us dependent on illegal immigrant labor
• The noble professions no one goes to college to do and why we need quality people to do them
• The lie that “The Constitution gives us rights” and how that lie grants government power that it does not and should not have
• Why The Constitution does not “apply to Americans” and how it actually applies to humans
• The lie of class warfare and how it convinces you that you don’t have what you want because of some other group
• The class structure of Europe that we left behind and why it needs to stay there
• The lie that “you can’t do it” or “you can’t make it” with out government help and how the government is actually the problem that limits individual achievement
• The lie of being told what you want or told what is a success or a failure or what you need
• Why no matter who runs Washington we all still have the ability to declare individual liberty
• How we lost the attitude of “this family doesn’t take charity” and how that is killing us
• How the individual spirit and personal fortitude is stronger then any law, government or situation
• How many of the “poor” are really free and many of the most “successful” are enslaved by life and debt
• How your personal action, personal spirit and determination are your greatest survival asset

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

Thoughts on Flu Pandemic and Survival Planning for Disease Outbreaks

 

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I recently received a request to do a show on the potential risk of an influenza outbreak (global flu pandemic) and was able to quickly put a show together on it. What is interesting is that the governments official advice is remarkably similar to the fundamental preparations that survivalists discuss every day.

I encourage you to take this threat seriously because a pandemic is one of those risks that is not an “if” but simply a “when” and by what particular means. Tune into todays show to hear my thoughts on,

• The shocking death statistics from three pandemics in the last 100 years from flu outbreaks
• The high death rate of infected parties by the H5N1 Avian Flu
• Why world governments are truly alarmed by the potential out break of the bird flu
• Why we can’t create a vaccine for a flu strain until it is really to late
• Why we have not yet had a case of avian flu in the U.S.
• The real economic impact of a true flu or other pandemic
• The real need for a quarantine in such an outbreak even a government enforced one
• Why food storage is so important for this potential threat
• Why even the power grid and water system may be at risk
• The people most at risk to the economic threat that will come from the flu threat
• Why your job is at risk and how you have no protection from termination during a quarntine
• The importance of having the choice to self quarantine before one is ordered
• The fantasy land some people live in that denies the horrific reality of a true pandemic
• Why the aftermath will be something the government can’t “bail us out of”

Links and Resources for this Podcast

• PandemicFlu.gov
• Individual Planning Suggestions at PandemicFlu.gov - My primary source of info for this show
• World Health Organization Death and Infection Statistics for Human Contracted HN51
• The Most Recent Human Cases of Avian Flu from the WHO
• Possible Vaccine for the Current Strain of H5N1
• The Past Used for Future Flu Pandemic Planning
• More Outbreaks in India and Indonesia

Is Global Cooling the Next Real Threat?

 

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Last Friday I discussed 5 articles covered on Survival Blogs, one that really caught my attention was on Global Cooling. Over the weekend I did some more research and discovered the science behind global cooling is honestly pretty creditable. While there are NO Guarantees in predicting any climate change, (not even tomorrows weather) this is pretty compelling. If you are true believer in Global Warming, please take a moment to visit some of the articles I link to at the end of today’s show notes.

Tune in and listen to today’s show to learn my thoughts on,

• Why we have been sold on the idea of and “solution” to global warming in the first place
• Why what you do to prepare for climate change is the same as preparing for any emergency
• How creating personal liberty and freedom is really the best way to prepare
• Thoughts on ensuring your food production by utilizing container gardening and green houses
• The reality of past periods of severe global cooling that were not that long ago and their effects
• How global cooling causes droughts
• How modern scientists are black balled for anything counter to the global warming theory
• Understanding the goal of global taxation
• The “golden rule” for analyzing any governmental solution
• Why governments are for industrial production of alternative power but not empowering individual production of solar and wind energy
• Ways to adapt to any climate driven emergency or crisis
• The meaning of “when it rains it pours” and what it means to you
• What really brought people to America in the 1800’s - It is not what we teach in schools today
• Why it is easier to live like a Homesteader today then it was when Homesteading was popular

Here are a list of articles from creditable sources on climate change that discuss the effect and reality of global cooling periods.

• All four major global temperature tracking outlets acknowledge global cooling
• How global warming can actually cause global cooling - yes it is possible
• Global cooling is being accepted by my scientists
• Solar radio waves could signal global cooling
• Global Temps from 2500 BC till Today - Have a look at the graphic!
• NCPA Article on Global Cooling
• The worlds leading climate scientists - In their own words for a Change!

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.

Survivalism Around the Blogosphere

 

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Today I decided to do something a bit different and I have pulled 5 topics currently being discussed by various bloggers. Tune in today to hear my thoughts on the following posts -

1. Government May Have Massive Surveillance Program for Use in “National Emergency” - From The Ignorance is Futile Blog.

Summary - There may be as many as 8 Million Americans that are in a database as a potential threat during a national emergency. The article cites the following - 1. “According to a senior government official…”There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate perceived ‘enemies of the state’ almost instantaneously.”

2. Ramen Noodles as a Food Storage Supplement - From The Survival Blog

Summary - The value and cheapness of Ramen Noodles is offset by they lack of nutritional value. Protect from rodents. Hey why not post your Ramen Noodle recipe ideas in the comments section.

3. Forget Global Warming we may enter a “Little Ice Age” from the Know the Lies Blog

Summary - Sun spot activity is decreasing and while NASA expects a major increase in 2012 even some of their scientists predict a major decline from then into 2015. From 1645 - 1715 we had the Maunder Minimum that was the cause of the Little Ice Age during the “dark ages”. The Armagh observatory predicts a 2 (about 3.5 Fahrenheit) degree decline over the next 20 years.

4. CNN Talks about Peak Oil - from OffGridSurvival.com

Summary - CNN did a story with a video available at the blog about a man in Main that is growing food, storing wood and using alternative energy to prepare for peak oil. An embeded video from CNN shows solar car and homestead put togehter by a really cool guy who is a school teacher in Maine.

5. Major Banks May Fail - from the “Texas Preppers Network”

Summary - Former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff (biw Harvard Professor) stated - “The worst of the global financial crisis is yet to come and a large U.S. bank will fail in the next few months as the world’s biggest economy hits further troubles.”

Mr. Rogogg further stated, “We’re not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we’re going to see a whopper, we’re going to see a big one, one of the big investment banks or big banks”

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Additional Links and Resources for this Podcast

• Wiki Article on the Maunder Minimum
• Ramen Recipes on the Cheap
• More on the 8 Million Count Government Watch List
• Mexican Scientists Predicts a LONGER new “Little Ice Age”
• How Ocean Currents Circulate Heat

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show.