The following may be considered basic foundation categories for survival preparedness. The entire process of prepping begins here, with the right basic ingredients to survive and stay alive. Each of these items are relatively inexpensive to purchase for storage, stores easily for long periods, and provides adequate nutrition to sustain life (although most people won’t get fat from them.
I was watching the Weather Channel this morning and they were showing a story about the sever weather of 2011. One of the big problems is how hard it hit the farmers. Crops were destroyed, live stock was sold early and a huge number of them were killed off. So not wanting to look at the Weather Channel any longer I turned to the BBC America. They had a story about the war looming withIran. If we do go to war with them, oil prices rise, and the cost of transportation of goods will increase. What does this mean for you and I? Get ready for more high food prices–- the USDA is projecting that we are looking at an overall spike of 2.5% to 3.5%.
“Closing the Strait of Hormuz for Iran’s armed forces is really easy … or as Iranians say, it will be easier than drinking a glass of water,” Iran’s navy chief Habibollah Sayyari told Iran’s English-language Press TV on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, rebels turn guns on each other turning Tripoli into a war zone, again. Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post Associated Press recently reported that Libya’s rebel militants have named a new “prime minister” this week. AP depicts the latest unelected Western proxy, Abdurrahim el-Keib, as a progressive academic who has spent decades in the United
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g. 19, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EDT Silver, corn, coffee and gasoline prices have been climbing too By Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold has climbed by a phenomenal $339 an ounce since the start of July, proving its worth as a safe-haven investment, but the yellow metal isn’t the only commodity that can
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Saudi Arabia the worlds leading producer of oil is looking to renewable energy. That is right you are hearing me right. This is a county that has gas prices as low as 45 cents a gallon. Why then are they looking at alternative energy sources? Saudi Arabia is in the process of developing its domestic
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Does it seem like we’ve been here before? A barrel of Brent Crude (the truest indicator of worldwide oil scarcity) sits at $118, up from $75 per barrel in July 2010 – a 57% increase in eleven months. In the U.S., the average price of gasoline is $3.69 per gallon this week, up 37% in the last year
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Is Water The Next Resource To Cause War? I took my son to the movies the other day. We watched “Rango” the story of a lizard that takes on the greedy mayor of a small western town. The mayor is in control of the water. In this movie, water was the currency and the way
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I just received my water bill today. They (the water company) announced that we are going to pay 30% more this year for water. Standby for more on this topic. There are a few books that talk about the coming crisis of water. Some are saying that water will be the next resource to start wars (oil is now the
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During the L.A. Riots, martial law was imposed. It was hard to get to the market and the lines at the register reached to the back of the store for what remained on the shelves. During any type of an epidemic or pandemic, or even another riot, shopping could be exasperating if not life threatening.
