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Episode-795- Matthew Stein Author of When Disaster Strikes

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Modern Survival| 43 Comments
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Mat Stein - Author of When Disaster Strikes

Mat Stein - Author of When Disaster Strikes

Matthew Stein is the author of When Disaster Strikes: A Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival (Chelsea Green 11/16/2011). This book has received excellent advance praise from experts on survival and disaster preparedness. Stein is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he majored in Mechanical Engineering.

As the owner of Stein Design & Construction, he has built hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes.  The mechanical engineering side of his firm specializes in product design and development. Among other things, Mat has designed consumer water filtration devices, solar PV roofing panels, medical bacterial filters, emergency chemical drench systems, computer disk drives, and portable fiberglass buildings.

Join Us Today as We Discuss…

  • Over looked items for the 72 hour kit
  • The role of colloidal silver in SHTF health care
  • What Matthew sees as the 6 events converging on collapse
    • Peak Oil
    • Climate Change
    • Oceanic Collapse
    • Deforestation
    • Food Shortages
    • Population Growth
  • The harsh reality of a potential 400 Chernobyls
  • The danger of EMP or Solar Flares to the grid
  • The basic things you need to do right now to be better prepared

Resources for Today’s Show…

Matthew Stein’s Links

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Episode-636- The Time to Store Food is Now

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Modern Survival| 47 Comments
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Sure I always tell you that it is a good idea to store food but today I want to get you really serious about doing this both to mitigate threats and to enhance your life on an everyday basis.

While I strive to keep the tone of TSP upbeat once in a while we must look at concrete underlying threats to our lives.  Every major organization that monitors the food supply is saying the same thing right now about our global supply of food, simply put, shortages are coming and they won’t be going away.

Join me today as we discuss….

  • The danger of nuclear disaster in America is economic and to the food supply
  • Main stream media is actually awake about this
  • Food commodities are expected to out perform gold and silver
  • How are we going to feed 9 Billion People
  • In 2010 for the first time there were more urban that rural people globally
  • The largest export of the US is top soil in the wind
  • Developing nations are increasing global demand
  • Why you must practice eat what you store and store first
  • What is the opportunity and reverse opportunity buy
  • Understanding the meaning of individual sustainability
  • Where commercial long term storage food fits into your plan
  • What becoming a producer means

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Episode-507- Whats Going On Out There

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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Today we take a moment to pay attention to a variety of current events that tell us why preparing is so important.  We won’t be pretending to know the future today, simply observing the current situations and trends they show us.  Today’s show may also seem a little political at times but ONLY because politicians are effecting our current and future stability.

My goal during most of the political stuff today is to focus on math and fact, what you believer politically is irrelevant in the face of math and fact.  Please keep that in mind and if you get bent out of shape because I seem in sync with a Democrat today or a Republican, that I am a libertarian and would like to see all of them replaced.  But when a person is correct they are correct, I will leave judging their motivations to you.

The key is today we focus on events that have destroyed or are destroying lives, decisions that are heading our nation toward bankruptcy and the things that actually can be done to deal with the consequences of both natural and man made disasters.  We get our fill of both today.

Join me Today as we Discuss

  • US is now number #4 – Story Link
  • Hillary says our debt is a national security risk (she ain’t wrong) – Story Link
  • Hillary compares Mexico to Columbia 20 years ago and an insurgency- Story Link
  • We won’t default on the debt because we can always borrow more (WTF?)- Story Link
  • Tropical Storm Hermine floods north Texas and drops multiple tornadoes- Story Link
  • John Boehner vows to defund Obamacare- Story Link
  • Two asteroids passed close by the earth yesterday inside the lunar orbit- Story Link
  • Colorado wild fires destroy over 100 homes- Story Link
  • Jobless claims are down, why it ain’t really good news- Story Link
  • The UN prepares for “food riots” in developing nations- Story Link
  • Tropical Storm Igor is on the way – Story Link
  • One expert says solar storms are nothing to loose sleep over- Story Link

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Episode-475- What a Few Big Disaster Scenarios Might Be Like

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Modern Survival| 10 Comments
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I thought it was time for a bit of a change up today so I am going to go over a group of really big disaters, national/global in scope and tell you what I think the results would be like, the down fall, the response and the rebuilding.

Join me today as we look at scenarios like…

  • A real pandemic with a high mortality and morbidity rate
  • A second great depression
  • A solar storm that takes out the electrical grid
  • A global food shortage due to crop failures and other factors
  • The realization of true “Peak Oil”

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Episode-361- 7 Events to Keep an Eye On

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Modern Survival| 12 Comments
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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.

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Episode-338- Global Economics and Food Shortages

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Modern Survival| 4 Comments
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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

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Episode-234- 5 News Events Effecting Modern Survivalists

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
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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…

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Episode-226- Six Events To Keep An Eye On

Posted on June 23, 2009 by Modern Survival| 9 Comments
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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

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Episode-190- Is a Global Food Shortage Inevitable?

Posted on April 29, 2009 by Modern Survival| 16 Comments
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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

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Episode-182- Gardening is Patriotic Our Nation is a Net Importer of Food

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments
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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

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