Monthly Archives: July 2011

Episode-713- Steward Rhodes on Opperation Sleeping Giant

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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Today we are joined by Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oathkeepers.    Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, reserves, National Guard, veterans, Peace Officers, and Fire Fighters who will fulfill the Oath they swore, with the support of like minded citizens who take an Oath to stand with us, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.

The Oathkeeper  motto is “Not on our watch!”

If the American people, are forced to once again fight for their liberty in another American Revolution, they will not be alone.  The Oathkeepers will stand with you.

There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But you can rest assured that many others in the military do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution, and understand what that means.

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Episode-712- Listener Calls for 7-28-11

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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Well its Thursday not Friday but we are still doing a listener calls show.  Why?  Well I have a special guest for you tomorrow, Steward Rhodes from Oathkeepers.  His show was going to air today but they are finalizing some parts of a new website that we will announce during his interview.  So to give him time for that I have flipped his show to Friday and Friday’s show to today.

Today we have some great questions on prepping for people that constantly move, flying with your gun, EDC, gardening and more.

Join me today as I answer your calls on…

  • Why is American selling our roads to foreign nations
  • How does a corporation protect personal assets
  • Thoughts on new vs. old media
  • Rail road ties are they ever “safe” for garden use
  • Procedure for checking a handgun on an airplane
  • Thoughts on prepayment of monthly bills for PSHTF
  • Sunflowers, okay, where is the flower
  • How do you prep if you move very frequently
  • Dealing with weeds
  • Keeping EDC minimalist

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Steven Harris Wants to Hear from You

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Modern Survival| 24 Comments

If you haven’t listened to the interview I did with Steven Harris yet you really should.  You an find it here.  Steven is an expert on personal energy production with processes like biogas, wood gas, solar,  fuel alcohol and more.

His interview has generated a ton of feedback and he has agreed to appear again on TSP in August.  So I need your help, send me your questions with

“Question for Steve”

In the subject line.  If there is ANYTHING you want to know about personal energy production this is the time to ask!

Also remember that Steven is now part of our MSB and provides a discount of 15% on all orders for DVDs and books at his website www.ush2.com.  Well it gets even better, next week I will be announcing a really awesome special for members of the MSB from Steven.  The offer will be for one of his top informational videos and the discount will be huge.  More on that on Monday.

Until then though we have one of the nation’s biggest experts on producing your own energy due back on TSP on August 16th so if you want to anything about

  • Biogas
  • Woodgas
  • Ethanol
  • Solar
  • Wind
  • Rocket Stoves
  • Hydrogen
  • Vehicle conversions
  • Generator conversions
  • Etc.

You get the point, anything you want to know about personal energy production just email me at jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com and put “question for Steve” in the subject line.

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Episode-711- Lessons from The Man Who Stopped the Desert

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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Yacouba Sawadogo is the Man Who Stopped the Desert

Yacouba Sawadogo, can not write, he was never classically educated, he received no help from any government programs but this one man has done more for the people in the ‘Sahel’ region of Africa than any other person or group of people combined.

How?  In some real ways, simply by digging holes!  He uses a method of growing called a zai.

Soil is essential to life on earth. But much of the world’s soil has become degraded and useless. As the global demand for food grows, millions of pounds and the latest technological advances have been invested in attempts to improve soil quality.

Leading scientists and agriculturalists from around the world strive against growing world hunger to find the means to bring exhausted soils back into production, but it seems that a peasant farmer from one of the poorest countries on earth has finally achieved what these experts dreamt of; halting the desert.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Who is Yacouba Sawadogo
  • Some remarkable similarities he has to Bill Mollison
  • Why problems we think are unique to us are not
    • Resistance to new ideas
    • Hostility when they begin to work
    • The trials of “imminent domain”
    • Food is our greatest need
  • The Zai and how it works
    • 5000 – 10000 holes per acre
    • Incorporate organic matter – compost – manure
    • Create low rock walls on contour
    • Prep in the dry season
    • Grow crops but grow forest as well
    • Utilizes termites
  • Ways I think it can be improved
    • Incorporate equipment
    • Practice more poly culture
    • Increase depth
    • Utilize mulch
    • Incorporate true swales
  • Great wisdom about survival From Yacoba
    • Noting makes people nasty faster than insecurity
    • You can’t preserve your wealth by running away
    • We must solve the food problem first
    • If you cut 10 trees a day and plant none in a year you are doomed
    • Leaders are shaped by circumstance and choice
    • Food sovereignty saves societies

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Using a “Bag Garden” for Temporary and Transitional Production

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Modern Survival| 16 Comments

Sometimes you have a situation were you don’t have time to dig a bed.  Sometimes the spring passes before you can’t get planting.  In our situation we have all that and more.

We didn’t get our moved accomplished until June, then I had to leave for two weeks to enjoy a promised vacaiton with the most supportive and understanding wife in the world.  So I found myself in late June with nothing planted, the solution a bag garden.

Basically I took the absolute worst spot on my land soil wise and laid out some bags of top soil, built a trellis with some existing pines and planted some fast growing summer crops.

The goal is simply to provide us with some production while we spend the rest of the summer doing soil improvements for fall gardening.  The video below is the results after about 4-5 weeks of growth.

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Episode-710- Holly Hirshberg from The Dinner Garden

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Modern Survival| 10 Comments
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Holly Hirshberg founder of DinnerGarden.org

In 2008, in the midst of a crumbling economy, Holly Hirshberg came up with a plan to help families and communities could weather the tough times by growing produce themselves.  Much like the Victory Gardens of the First and Second World Wars, these “Dinner Gardens” would allow people to stretch their food budgets and enhance their nutritional intake.   Individuals and families could have greater food security and take a direct part in that effort.

To help people achieve their gardens, Holly started at the beginning: providing people with vegetable seeds, free of charge.  Step two was supporting their efforts with gardening information and tips for cheap gardening in the space they had available.   She envisioned a nation where front lawns, empty lots, medians, parks, schools, churches, and community centers devoted space to fruit and vegetable gardens.

Holly often states ,”The Dinner Garden isn’t just about the seeds, It is about giving people hope. It is about showing people another way to live. The Dinner Garden is creating communities where families spend time together in a productive way and children learn that they can create something beautiful and useful to their family.”

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

 

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Episode-709- Listener Feedback 7-25-11

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Modern Survival| 17 Comments
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So it is Monday, aka listener feedback day where I answer your emails sent to jack at thesurvivalpodcast.com.  Today we have questions and comments on the USDA Organic program, money market accounts, managing your retirement, gun safety and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • How is a money market account different from a savings account
  • How money in a mutual fund is “managed”
  • What to look for in a small property if you want to keep livestock
  • The insanity of the modern lawn
  • A new bias to add to normalcy bias, status quo bias
  • Two suggestions for dealing with the squash vine borer
  • My response to a defender of the USDA Organic program
  • How not to shoot yourself and the story of someone who failed at it
  • Danger for state retirement pensions
  • GMO light, engineering a plant without foreign DNA
  • Taking back our responsibility to feed ourselves
  • How you can afford to buy local even if it cost more

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-708- Listener Calls for 7-22-11

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Modern Survival| 26 Comments
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So it is Friday and time for another round of your calls to 866-65-THINK.  Today we have some great calls on compost vs. fertilizer, storing water, saving money, controlling misquotes, terrorist attacks and more.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • What is the difference between compost and organic fertilizer
  • What is the future of metals like copper
  • Can you loose nutrient during the composting cycle
  • How to control mosquitoes in a self watering garden
  • Thoughts on heart worm prevention for dogs
  • Dealing with a boil water order the easy way, have water
  • Prepping for nuclear, bio, chemical and terrorist attacks
  • A machine gun as an financial investment?
  • Advice for the young person concerned about our economic future
  • Thoughts on competing currencies and the bitcoin
  • A second water line to save money? In some places yes!
  • The dreaded squash vine borer, what to do about it

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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New MSB Supporting Vendor USH2.com

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Modern Survival| 1 Comment

If you have not yet listened to yesterday’s show with Steven Harris you really should.  Steven is one of the nations leading experts on creating energy from hydrogen, wind and biogas.  He is also the founder of USH2.com.

USH2.com is the my personal favorite source for individual energy independence available on the web. USH2.com is chalk full of incredible resources for creating your own energy from solar, wood, biogas and more. Their site has an incredible selection of products, DVDs and books that empower individuals to personal energy independence.

The best part is MSB Members now get 15% off of all books and DVDs at USH2.com.  Trust me no matter what you are looking to learn about in the realm of personal energy independence you will find it at USH2.com.

Some of the resources I am adding to my personal library are…

I am really happy that I was able to bring USH2.com to the MSB program.  I generally try to bring in vendors that I am happy to spend my own money with and this is definitely one of those times.   Even if you are not in the MSB if you have been looking for ways to increase your personal energy independence check out USH2.com today.

A quick note on the discount, the 15% only applies to books, videos and DVDs, USH2.com also has some awesome products like biogas stoves and rocket stoves but they are already priced so low that Steven is not able to offer further discounts on them.  I am personally still going to pick up one of his portable biogas stoves, they just seem to cool not to add one to my preps.

If you are serious about gaining energy independence this one benefit could cover the cost of an entire year of the MSB.

Remember as a member of the MSB you also get…

  • Over 100 dollars of free eBook
  • Discounts from 28 Additional Vendors
  • Videos available no where else
  • Zip Files of every episode of TSP ever recorded

So if you have been on the fence about the Members Brigade, today might be a good day to join.

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Episode-707- Steven Harris on Bio Fuels for Personal Energy Independence

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.

Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.

Mr. Harris is currently working on Project Destiny, a solar hydrogen energy system and holds break through technology in the field of Solar Energy Conversion and Biomass Gasification. He is authoring an upcoming book, “The Positive Promotion of Hydrogen Energy a Model for Success in an Economically Driven Market” and the currently released book, “Sunshine to Dollars”, “Surviving the Blackout of 2003″, plus the author of 4 Hydrogen related DVDs and 2 other videos.

Join us Today as we Discuss…

  • What is Project Destiny?
  • What is the best REAL solar energy to use in a disaster?
  • Can a generator be run off biogas
  • Can a vehicle be run off biogas.
  • What is the history of cars running on biogas ?
  • How to run natural gas appliances on biogas?
  • How much biogas could be produced in a small backyard operation?
  • How to obtain material for making biogas for little to no cost
  • How to build your own wood gasifier inexpensively
  • How to stay safe when making bio gas
  • How do you safely store, compress, etc. biogas?
  • How much biogas already is working at a national level

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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