Monthly Archives: September 2008

Episode-55- The Real Cause of the American Revolution

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Modern Survival| 6 Comments
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The origins of the Federal Reserve and death of the gold standard on American currency and true cause of the American Revolution are the subjects of today’s show.

Tune in today to learn…

  • The real cause of the American Revolution it was not -”No taxation with out representation”
  • How The Federal Reserve Act was written in total secrecy
  • How leaving the gold standard made out money worthless
  • Why having a Federal Reserve results in debt that can never be escaped from
  • Why you children will be enslaved by debt if the Fed is allowed to continue
  • Why our currency is no longer an “honest currency”
  • How independent banks used to print currency backed by gold
  • How every dollar is nothing but a certificate for debt
  • What really happened to the gold seized from our citizens in the 1930s
  • How after 230 years we are right back where we started

Links for Today’s Show

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Episode-54- Hurricane Ike – Merrill Lynch – Lehman Brothers – Lessons Learned?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Modern Survival| 11 Comments
Episode-54- Hurricane Ike - Merrill Lynch - Lehman Brothers - Lessons Learned? [ 29:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This was one of the most destructive “storm filled” weekends in history. First the true storm of a massive category two hurricane in the form of Ike, which has left Galveston Texas in ruins. The second storm has been largely over shadowed by Ike and it is the financial storm that say Bank of America swallow up Merrill Lynch and left Lehman Brothers in the darkness of bankruptcy.

Tune in today to hear…

  • Why I have little sympathy for those that ignored evacuation orders
  • More on the story of “The Grasshopper and the Ant” winter isn’t always a season
  • It is easy to be hard on those who were not ready, but, are you ready
  • Why announcements like Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch always come on a Sunday
  • The effect of Monday Amnesia by weeks end – “watch the shinny celebrities and just relax”
  • Why this isn’t the big one and more grief is yet to come
  • How American’s are paying attention only to the “temperature of their pools” and don’t see the underlying cancer that these new financial storms represent
  • Don’t be fooled, this has all happened before and unless we crack the whip it will all continue to happen again, and again, and again…..
  • First get mad, you can’t do anything unless you get mad first
  • Why these signs are screaming “prepare for disaster” at a deaf population
  • The cascading effect when big companies fail and consolidate on small and mid size businesses
  • Why the promise of a better 2009 is a lie and a big one at that
  • How the money for “bail outs” and “buy outs” is running out and what that means for you
  • A third institution that most likely won’t survive until mid October

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Episode-53- Attracting Wildlife to Your Property

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments
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Today we discuss different methods for attracting wildlife to your property such as providing feed, shelter and water sources that appeal to various game animals.  With proper management native wild life can become part of your permaculture efforts.

There is also a stern warning for South Texans threatened by Hurricane Ike and a lesson about listening to your inner voice when it warns you to take action.

Tune in today to learn…

  • Methods of provideing shelter and cover that attract wild life
  • Different options for nesting boxes and other shelters
  • Methods to provide water including ponds, steams and tanks
  • Advice on using feeders and a cool squirrel feeder
  • Advice for building brush piles and staying safe when doing so
  • Different hard mast trees that attract wild life
  • What you can do on land from 1 acre to 100 acres
  • Balancing attraction of wild life with crop protection
  • Harvesting wild life as part of permaculture efforts
  • Advice on preserving hard mast trees on your property

Links for this Podcast

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Episode-52- Basics of the Bow and Bow Hunting for Survival Living

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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Note – Today’s podcast has some audio issues, it seems my mic was not properly plugged in and the external mic did all the recording.  I decided to post the show with the issues, rather then simply not post it at all.  Be assured that the audio quality going forward will return to what it has been recently.

Tune in today and get a primer on bow hunting and learn all about the great sport of archery hunting.  I first started bow hunting at 13 and after well over 20 years it is still the most exciting form of hunting I have ever done.  Tune in to hear…

  • Choosing between long, recurve and compound bows
  • The cross bow its real advantages and the myths about it as well
  • Why some states allow cross bows in archery season and others don’t and why both are right to do so
  • How I started bow hunting
  • Your responsibility as a bow hunter
  • What it is like to be “busted” while drawing the bow on a deer
  • Different broad heads – shoot what shoots best for your bow
  • Finding a good archery shop
  • Why most should start with a compound bow
  • My feeling about mechanical releases
  • The role of the bow in survival living
  • How bow hunting makes you a true predator
  • The spiritual side of bow hunting

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Episode-51 – Options and Reasons to Invest in Silver

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Modern Survival| 16 Comments
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I got quite a few questions about my comments on several episodes about investing in silver.  While I am not an investment adviser and can’t legally give specific recommendations I decided to do a show about some different options and the general advantages and disadvantages of each.  I also went over just a few of the many economic signals that it may be a good idea to hold some hard assets like silver in the coming years.

Tune in today to hear…..

  • The real value of silver and how it one time actually backed U.S. currency
  • My personal opinion and view about silver coins and bullion
  • The difficulty of finding a decent adviser that can help with metal investments
  • The advantage of “physically possessing” hard silver
  • Why you should keep individual increments small
  • The risk of highly numismatics purchases
  • The complete freedom of no minimums, no penalties of buying hard silver
  • The ways to buy silver paper assets like stock and funds
  • A bit on foreign silver coins
  • How to calculate “melt value” of silver coins
  • Investing as little as 5 bucks a month
  • The ability to sell off small quantities as needed
  • The huge advantage of “no paper trail” with small consumer purchases of silver
  • The inheritance value of handing down silver from one generation to the next

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Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-50- How to Survive – An Overview of Modern Survivalist Philosophy

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments
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Last night I was asked a simple question, “well if you run the survival podcast, then tell me, how do you survive”.  This inspired todays show on Modern Survivalist Philosophy.

Tune in today to hear…

  • How the creation of the Federal Reserve has led to volentary enslavement of the American People
  • Why debt freedom creates individual freedom
  • Why debt was the only way to take over the America of the 1800s and how it took generations for it to occur
  • The freedom of producing your own food
  • How Tax is theft and how a bloodless revolution could reclaim America
  • The “investment value” of stored food
  • The logical way to use and view alternative energy
  • The true wealth of land ownership
  • Using “the system” in modern survivalism with down to earth things like insurance and investing
  • The lesson of the immigrants that built our rail roads and mined our coal – use the system to get out of it
  • Why our personal survival philosophy is more important to you then anyone elses
  • The fundmental truths of survivalism, liberty and knowledge

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Episode-49- Around the Survivalist Blogoshpere – Take Two

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Modern Survival| 5 Comments
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Back on August 22′nd I did my first “Around the Survivalist Internet” show and it seemed to get good feedback so I figured it was time to do one for September.  Today we discuss six stories from blogs and online news sources and what they mean to us. Tune in today to hear…

  • What we are in store for with Hurricane Ike
  • Why some residents of New Orleans may end up in real trouble and why I don’t care (it ain’t being mean, listen to the show and it will make sense)
  • What is going on with a government take over of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (the good, bad and ugly)
  • Thoughts on keeping cash and other supplies on hand
  • The reality of not being able to “pick things up on the way out” during an evacuation
  • Investing in Silver – Is eBay a good source of silver coins?
  • Venezuela to host “Russian Navy Exercises” in the Caribbean
  • Chavez sending the message, “the Russians have my back”
  • Its’ official the City of Vallejo California is Bankrupt – “no blood from a stone” for the police and fire department unions
  • The damage done by the “Tin Foil Hat” type survivalists
  • Blowing the cover of those who lie about service and being a “war hero” etc.

Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-48- Why Oil Isn’t “Down” and Why it Will Keep Going Up

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Modern Survival| 8 Comments
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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

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Episode-47- Why We Prepare – The Lesson of the Grasshopper and the Ant

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
Episode-47- Why We Prepare - The Lesson of the Grasshopper and the Ant [ 35:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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Episode-46- The Pistol Caliber Carbine in Survial Planning

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
Episode-46- The Pistol Caliber Carbine in Survial Planning [ 42:00 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

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 H4227

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

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