Episode-361- 7 Events to Keep an Eye On: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

We are going to shift gears a bit today and discuss 7 economic and political events.  These events are being discussed in varying degrees by the main stream at this time.  What I want to do today is discuss how they effect us from a self sufficiency, prepper and liberty oriented community both short and long term.

• The California Water Shortage (forum link with photos)
• GM Flax in Canada (story link 1 - story link 2 - what is triffid)
• Jim Rodgers warns of a Property bubble in China (story link)
• Scott Brown’s wins in  the people’s seat in Massachusetts (not Ted Kennedy’s seat)
• Rodgers says food shortages are coming – Daily Finance says he is wrong (story link)
• H1N1 Vaccines are going to waste (story link)
• Democrats will now focus on the economy (story link)

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Ready Made Resources - (sponsor of the day)
• Tea Party Silver - (sponsor of the day)
• Greg’s Blog - RV-103.com
• Mastering the 22 Rifle (my eBook due out in about 3 weeks)
• Ron Hood’s Survival.com Magazine

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 Episode-338- Global Economics and Food Shortages [54:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today it is time for a change up.  We are going to look at 8 news stories some here in the US and others around the world and see what they tell us about what we can expect to see in coming years.

Tune in today as we discuss…

• Excessive Inflation in China - Story Link
• Unemployment benefits extension buried in a “defense spending bill” - Story Link
• Federal Government backdoors billions in tax breaks to CITI Bank in return for TARP repayment- Story Link
• The Federal Government can now break up a bank for being to big to fail- Story Link
• Ben Bernanke is Times “Man of the Year”  WTF - Story Link
• Schiff says the economic recovery is a farce - Story Link
• Britain will have a bleak future with many food shortages - Story Link
• Food prices in India up 19% due to a grain shortage - Story Link

Resources for today’s show…

• Members Support Brigade
• TSP Gear Shop
• Join Our Forum
• Survival Seed Bank - (sponsor of the day)
• Western Botanicals - (sponsor of the day)
• TSP’s Youtube Channel
• Ron Hoods Survival.com Magazine

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.

 

 Episode-234- 5 News Events Effecting Modern Survivalists [42:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

I am finally back in the car, tune in today to hear me discuss some current events such as California is sending out IOUs, Peter Schiff on gold, the G8/G5 Summits, food shortages coming in 09/10 and more.

Tune in today and get more about

• California is bankrupt (seriously) what can we learn from this and what will happen next?
• Peter Schiff says buy gold now, what I agree with and disagree with
• IMF says the recession will end in 2009 after they said it would not, which is correct?
• G8/G5 Summits say we will limit global warming to only 2 degrees C by 2050, but not how or who is going to pay for it
• Climate change is threatening global food productions but it is too cold not to warm

Resources for today’s show…

• Members Support Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• Region Six Get Together
• Video of our breakdown
• Grasshopper and Ant Video by a Listener
• California sends IOUs instead of money
• Schiff says buy gold
• IMF says recession to end in 09
• IMF says recession won’t end in 09 (so were they right this time or the other?)
• G8/G5 will limit global warming to 2 degrees (oh joy!)
• UK Telegraph on Global Cooling hurting crops (this is the page that would not load this morning, it loads now, foil hats off)

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.

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 Episode-226- Six Events To Keep An Eye On [41:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today we are doing a bit of a change up and taking a moment to look around and see what the heck is going on in the world politically and economically.  I will cover six events that are getting little to no reall discussion in the main stream media.

Also please help me get on “Freedom Watch” with The Judge on Fox by voting for me on their suggest a new topic forum.

Tune In Today To Hear About…

• UG99 a fungus that could kill off much of the world’s wheat crops
• Gold drops in value when people use it, what that means to you
• You think China can’t build a good car, they just built an Airbus 320 with 9 more to come this year
• Oil just dropped, speculators don’t always get their way, here is why
• Obama gets credit for the planned withdrawal from Iraq, why that is a blatant lie (see links in the resources section for proof)
• Stock to go up today (unless a bomb is dropped), why, Moody’s says so

Resources for Today’s Show

• Members Support Brigade
• Join Our Forum
• Region Six Get Together
• BrewCrazy Podcast
• Seeking Alpha on UG99
• Bloomberg on the short term drop in gold and why it happened
• China Builds Its’ First Airbus 320
• Wall Street Journal on Falling Oil Prices
• Another Bubble?  This one In Oil
• Me telling you about the Bush withdrawal in Nov. 2008 and predicting that Obama would get credit for it
• Bush’s Plan for Withdrawal in the NY Times in AUGUST OF 2008!
• Monsters and Critics on the Withdrawal ALSO IN AUGUST OF 2008!
• Moody’s says the US is still AAA on credit

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.

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 Episode-190- Is A Global Food Shortage Inevitable? [47:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

My view is yes, sooner or later it is inevitable due to declines in production and resources and expansion of population.  I also think we should not engage in alarmism at this point either.  Much like peak oil this is a real problem that will get worse but over a rather long period of time, not tomorrow morning.

Today we also briefly discuss the defection of Republican Arlen Spector and we do another swine flu (h1n1) update.

Tune in today to hear…

• A news caster that should have his ass kicked
• New swine flu cases in my back yard
• Don’t take your kid to the doctor if they don’t have any symptoms just to be “checked out” DUH!
• What we are learning about how people react in a SHTF right now
• How Spector’s defection is meaningless
• How politics is like pro wrestling - but it ain’t funny when it comes to our national leaders!
• 6 of the last 9 years we have failed to meet demand with global grain capacity
• What global trends are telling us about future food production expectations
• Why grain is so important to the global food supply
• Subsidiaries are not new, they are VERY old
• Why food shortages can only lead to war sooner or later
• 25% of US grain production will go to bio fuels in 2009
• The grain used for biofuel could feed a half a billion people in India
• Why we indeed may face water shortages soon - nothing to do with your Bermuda Grass
• How we are depleting fossil aquifers
• The powder keg of the US, Western Europe, India, Russia and China
• How individual agriculture is the answer, large scale farms can not grow food that way

Resources for Today’s Show

• Reprint of the Article I mentioned from Scientific American
• Another article on potential food shortages
• How to contact Arlen Spector
• Good PDF on Fossil Aquifers
• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview

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.

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 Episode-182- Gardening is Patriotic Our Nation is a Net Importer of Food [35:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

In 1970 our nation first became a net importer of oil, join today’s show as I discuss the parallel of this event and its’ impact over 30 years to the fact that the US just became a net importer of food in early 2008.  Join me today as we discuss…

• The US, The UK, China, Japan, India and Malaysia are now all Net Food Importers
• How our conversion to a net food importer is very similar to our status as a net oil importer
• How oil imports started climbing in the 50s and then outweighed native production by 1990
• Exactly what do Patriotism and Gardening have to do with each other
• How a food deficit is far worse then an oil deficit
• What people are doing with 500 dollar houses in Detroit
• The lesson from the Soviet Union and what happened when they killed the farmers
• Why we don’t have to let this final global dependence happen to our nation and why we need to take action
• Spreading gardening and permaculture to your neighborhood
• The loss of gardening as a true skill
• What we can learn about food production from the tragic history of U.S. Manufacturing and Oil Production
• How loosing our ability to feed ourselves could take away the last of our autonomy in the Global market place
• If your grandparents, great grandparents and parents did this, so can we
• How we used to feed the world and why it matters

Resources for Today’s Show

• Best Home Defense Weapon if You Can’t Own a Gun?
• Region 5 Get Together
• Members Support Brigade
• Dirt Time 2009
• Lights Out Audio Preview
• China is a Net Importer of Food (population 1.3 Billion Plus)
• Japan is a Net Importer of Food (population 127 Million Plus)
• India is a Net Importer of Food (population 1.1 Billion Plus)
• Malaysia is a Net Importer of Food (population 25 Million Plus)
• The UK is a Net Importer of Food (population 60 Million Plus)
• South Africa is a Net Importer of Food (population 44 Million Plus)
• The US is a Net Importer of Food (population 300 Million Plus)
• What Detroit is Doing with Foreclosed Homes (very cool)

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.

You also now can call in questions or comments for the host at 866-65-THINK, (866-658-4465) please read the suggestions for calling in before you do for the best chance of getting your comments on the air.