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Do I stay or do I go! Not just a great old song by The Clash but an ongoing debate and topic of discussion everywhere preparedness is discussed. Some are sure they will bug out, they have a plan to live off the land (good luck with that) and others just know they are going to guard the fort and hunker down. The reality is this is one of those issues that is very situationally dependent. The same person (if they act with reason and logic) will choose different answers. To help me formalize this process I developed 12 questions to ask yourself both in advance of and during a disaster to make this decision with logic vs. emotion.
Tune in today as we consider the following…
Logic vs. emotion
Which choice gives you the best chance of survival for the scenario at hand? (this is not always clear)
How well prepared are you to bug in?
What exactly are you prepared for? (a forest fire is far different from local rioting)
Have evacuation orders been given?
What is the nature and probable duration of the threat?
Well staying put change anything as far as “saving your home”?
Where will you go and how will you get there?
Do you own a bug out location or have double up plans or no place to go at all?
Will you be able to help your community if you stay?
What will the impact of staying or going be on your family, can they handle what you can?
What can you take with you and what must you leave behind?
If you leave what exactly is waiting for you at your destination?
The time to answer these questions is not in the middle of a disaster but right now. At this point you can plan, form contingencies and be prepared for a variety of outcomes. That way if the day comes your mind is ready to act and you can make the best use of the resources you have. As always how you act and how you think is more important then your resources.
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Here are two things I know about my audience. The majority, over 70% live in urban and suburban areas. The second is that a major majority of those would like to get out of the city some day even if the shit never hits the fan. There is also the reality that many at least for the short term are held by job, family obligations and other factors. So I thought today would be a good day to discuss urban homesteading and tomorrow we can discuss urban prepping.
Join me today as we discuss…
What exactly makes a home a homestead anyway
Why homesteading on some level makes sense for everyone
Start out by assessing what you have
Sketching your land and determining energy flows
Gardening is hard work and may not be for you large scale
Perennials take more time but pay far larger rewards
Drip irrigation and automated watering systems
Small live stock – Chickens, Rabbits and Ducks
Considering – Hydro and Aquaponics
The Greenhouse is your Friend
Think about property value increasing activities
Understand your advantages
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Today I though I would give sort of a mile high view of taking your home from grass hopper fields of green to organized ant hill. Or if you are on the journey already from disorganized ant hill to organized ant fortification. Getting prepared seems tough, it seems beyond reach and on some levels it is. One can never be fully prepared for everything but getting to well prepared for most things is doable in steps.
Join me today as we discuss…
Another look at the old story, The Grasshopper and the Ant
Taking an inventory
Journaling items used on a regular basis
Committing to copy canning
Develop a black out kit
Install emergency lighting
Set up some sort or back up power
Develop a documentation package
Set up at least 2 weeks to 1 month of long term storables
Install a back flow preventer on your water heater
Store at least 25 gallons of water, more is better
Journal your spending – EVERY PENNY
Form a debt elimination plan and DO IT
Define your lifestyle vision and WORK ON IT
Create a get out – get home plan
Own and know how to use a grill
Teach yourself at least 2 food preservation methods
Visit farmers markets
Talk to your neighbors
Believe you can get it done, because you can
Focus on the results, not the battle
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Yesterday I made my second large purchase of the year, a 2005 F-350 Diesel Super Duty I got for 30% under its Kelly Blue Book Value, I paid cash. Earlier this year I bought a new RV (a Shamrock 21ss) I also paid cash. I almost feel guilty about this but it got me thinking, 8 years ago my wife and I sate down face in hands looking at over 25K in credit card debt, medical bills (which grew before they shrank) and more.
We thought “how did we let this happen”, we thought about just letting things keep going and paying a “little bit more” on a few debts. Our income was great, our house payment was low, it would all be okay, a meeting with a “financial liar” confirmed it wold be fine. The liar even suggested we take out some home equity since we had so much if we were worried about low cash reserves.
In my head the wisdom of my grandmother screamed out over the words of this clown who had the arrogance to claim he understood money. My wife and I began a journey, one many of you have followed as well. I have discussed he journey and the how and why behind it, yet until today I have never discussed the freedom that lies on the other side.
In January I walked away from a six figure salary to do TSP full time. It was a hard choice but we had paid all debt by that point and began saving money heavily. We jumped from stocks before the crash and had not taken the hit. Something totally unexpected occurred though, despite a massive reduction in my income, we actually seem to now have more money.
I have started to really understand why this is the case and a lot of your “post debt” emails took on a new meaning for me as of yesterday. So today while I will talk a bit about debt, I am going to talk far more about what completing the journey will mean. If you are going fight a difficult battle you need to realize what victory will mean.
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After spending a week with Val Riazanov on systema and Russian martial arts and filming the new DVD series I thought it might be a good day to do a show on dealing with potentially violent confrontations.
Join me today as we discuss…
Real violence vs. movie violence
The morals of the criminal, he has none
Professional = death when it comes to killing
The first rule is avoiding the confrontation
If you can’t avoid it focus on deescalation
If deescalation fails at times controlled retreat is the best option
You should always appear relaxed and “harmless”
When you do strike it must be with sufficient force for the situation
Pressure points are useless in full speed combat, anatomy points are critical
The “systema strike” – misunderstood and highly effective
Dealing with an armed opponent takes things to another level
The knife is the oldest consistently deadly weapon for a reason
In dealing with an opponent with a gun 1.5-2 meters is “critical distance”
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Today we back up and take a deeper look at the topic of debt and how it both destroys lives in good times and bad. Debt is a cancer that is destroying America. We have been sold a false dream, a false dream that robs the true dream of America’s legacy of freedom.
Join me today as we discuss…
The basic rules of survival
The false dream of debt vs the real dream that is America
Why debt really is cancer and why it will make you act in fear
How debt leads to bigger government
Why financial management and debt elimination cannot be separated from survivalism
The cost of debt must be measured in time, not dollars for the horror to become evident
The only way to eliminate debt
Why people in debt out spend people who are debt free
Why you must at least start eliminating debt if you want to be a modern survivalist
The main way to be a survivor is to reduce dependence
Inflation punishes savers, save anyway
We are forced into risk, debt makes that worse
The solution is in your hands
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It seems there is always a disaster somewhere in the world. Right now eyes are on Haiti, over the last two decades we have had many. The LA Riots, The California Quake, Hurricanes Andrew, Ike, Rita and of course Katrina. Lesser publicized weather events like the Ft. Worth and Arlington Tornado (which we lived through), the Mississippi floods of the 90s, Tropical Storm Fay in Jacksonville and more.
Each time we hear how we have “learned” from the event and will do better next time, yet a lot of what we learn misses many of the real lessons. This will be the subject of today’s podcast.
Join me today as we discuss…
More first responders per individual
Biggest shortages are food, water and shelter
Law and order will break down
Law abiding citizens often become targets of law enforcement
The media loves hardship, blame and is never part of the solution
The size and scope of large disasters has actually be quite small
Government and your fellow man will help but you may still be on your own
Redundancy in your preparations is critical
The disaster is not the biggest danger, the aftermath is
The cause is less important then the removal of systems of support
Money can become worthless, beer can be a currency
Free societies are vulnerable
What happens elsewhere can and very well may effect you
It can happen where you live
It is up to you, no matter the intentions of others
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Perhaps Not Such a Bad Idea
Note– There will be ZERO teacher bashing in this show. Well zero teacher bashing as a wholesale group anyway, I promise.
Yesterday I pointed out how many problems and divisions in society would not even exist if the state were not involved in key issues. Once again I dared touch the sacred cow of pubic education. Once again my inbox is crammed full of hate mail because I am “bashing teachers” when the truth is the word teacher wasn’t even used in yesterday’s show.
Why this reaction? Because logical and other wise intelligent and sane people become irrational even to the state of temporary insanity when something they see is necessary is called unnecessary. They may not know why they even believe it to be necessary, they just do and that alone causes at times even a violent response when anyone even infers that they are wrong.
School is important and an education is priceless. Every child has a fundamental right to an education, everyone knows that right? There are both truths and inaccuracies in those statements and combined they create what we call a logical fallacy. What is a logical fallacy? Logical fallacies are unsubstantiated assertions that are often delivered with a conviction that makes them sound as though they are proven facts. This is often done by taking true facts and combing them with total fabrication or unsubstantiated conclusions based on some of the actual facts.
In this case “school is important”, well no, education is important, but school is only one form of education. School is not required for education to even occur.
Every child has a right to an education is another one. We must first understand that a right as used above means the following…
A moral or legal entitlement to have or obtain something or to act in a certain way.
This means that there is a moral and legal obligation to provide everyone with an education. Is that actually the case? I don’t believe it is, not in the way we are led to believe anyway.
This also omits a critical reality, that every right comes with corresponding responsibilities. Further that the State is to ensure rights primary by not oppressing them or allowing others to oppress them.
For instance your right to free speech comes with responsibility to not say incite violence or yell fire in a crowded theater. More over, the state isn’t responsible to provide you a venue for your free speech nor to force people to listen to you, only to ensure your rights are not trampled on, nor are they permitted to impede them. This brings us to yet another fallacy, the “fallacy of omission” which is…
Errors occur because the logician leaves out necessary material in an argument or misdirects others from missing information.
The reality is there are hundreds of fallacies and almost all of them at one point or another could be applied to most things we hold sacred such as public education.
Today I would like to examine what a true free market education system might look like. Once we do I ask that you use logic and reason to determine for yourself not if such a system would be perfect, only would it be better than what we have. Every system is flawed, this doesn’t mean a system with flaws can’t be better than a system with even greater flaws. To assert that a flawed system isn’t a better system simply because it has some flaw, when the underlying system itself has greater flaws, is also a fallacy, can anyone name that fallacy?
Join Me Today to Discuss…
Is every child entitled to a good education
Does the current system provide a good education to every child
Who’s children are they anyway
Why teachers are not to blame
Why teachers can’t fix the system and why many would not if they could
Answering the big but what if style questions…
But who decides if an education is valid
How would we ensure standards are met or that standards are valid
What about children that can’t afford a “good education”
Then how would we insure access to education if not provision of education
But students with wealthier parents get a better education this way
But every other modern nation provides public education
But children need school for social skills, to meet other people, etc.
This system will create an unfair advantage for many
But we have to at least make sure that the average person can read, write and do math
Why we must abolish compulsory public education to solve most of our current problems
The system I would institute to wean society off the current system
No child can be compelled to go to any school ever, the end
The state can continue to offer education but not compel attendance
A taxes funding education are to be lowered in an evenly apportioned manner as students exit the system
Any person or entity may set up any form of education as longs as the activities conducted are other wise legal
Any group or entity may set up a standards body, publish its own standards and issue certifications
The only state over sight is contract resolution criminal police enforcement
The contract resolution component must be voluntary
Why a free market system would work better even if it has flaws
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Confit – An Amazing Food that also Extends Storage Life.
Today is a show about one of the fundamentals of modern survival philosophy, food storage. Food storage is actually something that at one time was simply something everyone did. Every home in America at one time seemed to have a root cellar full of canned goods.
Today though food storage and the concept of survivalism or prepping is sensationalized and largely misunderstood. Many tend to hear survivalist and at once envision a guy sitting on a ten year supply of military rations in a basement or bunker somewhere. This image is hyped by media who simply wish to sell a story and worse is made up of journalists that live in a bubble of “the government will fix our problems”. The reality is that the bunker approach of military rations is both inaccurate and impractical.
To worsen matters as preparedness has become more of a hot industry long term food has become a product marketed largely on fear vs. on the practical benefits it offers. The reality is food storage doesn’t even require specially packaged 25 year stable products, though they can be useful in your food storage program. The simple truth is that a simple 60-90 day supply of food in your home can help the average family deal with every day occurrences and most disasters they might ever expect to encounter.
Join me today as we discuss…
Why storing food is practical even if society never collapses
Rule One – Eat what you store, store what you eat
Keep a food journal
Use “copy caning”
Think with a “meal mentality”
Store what “the kids” eat
Store pet food as well
Rule Two – Take advantage of opportunity buys
Watch for sales
Use coupons
Pattern seasonal trends
Understand
Rule Three – Find local sources of food and partake of them
Buy from local producers
Learn about local seasonal opportunities
Yes hunting and fishing (leveraged with rule five)
Learn local wild edibles (there is always something)
Rule Four – Use commercially prepared long term storables as extenders
Find “meal ingredients” and store those
Buy a can of this, a can of that, try stuff, stock what you like
Learn about making “meals in a jar”
Don’t go overboard on this stuff
Rule Five – Become a producer of food and/or storables
Gardens are great, perennials are even better
Small livestock is a great option
Consider aquaponics, hydroponics and things like microgreens
Learn multiple storage techniques
Flash freezing
Dehydrating
Jerky/Biltong
Canning
Smoking
Confit
Dry canning (I do it with jars and the vaccucanner)
Producing storables from other foods is your silver bullet
Become a great cook, stretch what others consider waste
Where “rice and beans” fits in this mix
Rule Six – Seek a Holistic Solution
None of these rules stand alone
A formula is always more than the sum of its parts
Take your time, ease into this as a “way of living”
How storing food empowers you to live a better life
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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
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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