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Episode-795- Matthew Stein Author of When Disaster Strikes

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-636- The Time to Store Food is Now

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-507- Whats Going On Out There

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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 … Continue reading →

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

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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” Additional Resources for … Continue reading →

Episode-361- 7 Events to Keep an Eye On

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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. 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 … Continue reading →

Episode-338- Global Economics and Food Shortages

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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- … Continue reading →

Episode-234- 5 News Events Effecting Modern Survivalists

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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 … Continue reading →

Episode-226- Six Events To Keep An Eye On

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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, … Continue reading →

Episode-190- Is a Global Food Shortage Inevitable?

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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 … Continue reading →

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

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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 … Continue reading →