Electromagnetic pulse.

This is a topic I've read a little about but still feel very lacking in understanding. EMPs (Electro Magnetic Pulse) seem to be intense power surges from explosions which could devastate our electronic systems. Everything from computers, to car engines, to radios, and possibly even household wiring could be affected. This all sounds so sci-fi, but a fair amount of evidence exists.Someone sent me this link which has numerous articles listed on the same page, all discussing this issue. It is really quite a comprehensive catalog of info.

Excellent video teaching difference between Democracy and Republic

This ten minute video teaches. This is exactly what we need today, people need to be methodically instructed. Watch it here.

Wattage list for home generator

Steve sent this to me a while back. I'm not sure of the original source or the accuracy, but it seems helpful.

Household appliance Wattage

Air conditioners
Central 5,000
Room 1,000
Clock radio 10
Coffeemaker 1,050
Clothes washer 425
Clothes dryer (electric) 3,400
Dishwasher 1,800
Dehumidifier 785
Electric blanket 80

Fans
Ceiling 120
Window 150
Furnace 750
Whole house 500
Freezer (stand-alone) 600
Hair dryer 1,600

Heating
central, gas furnace 400
central, oil furnace 1500
electric, portable 1125
Clothes iron 1,400

Light bulbs
Incandescent 100
Compact fluorescent 25
Microwave oven 925



Personal computer
CPU & Monitor 125
Laptop 25
Stereo 250
Range (electric) 4,500
Refrigerator 725
Sump pump 600

Televisions (color)
20-inch (LCD) 65
26-inch (LCD) 110
36- to 42-inch (Plasma) 250
50- to 60-inch (Plasma) 340

Misc
Toaster 1,100
Toaster oven 1,225
VCR/DVD 25
Vacuum cleaner 1,225
Water heater (electric, 40-gallon) 5,000
Well pump (deep well) 700

Lights In Sky Prompt Flood Of Calls In Md., Va., N.C.

I wonder what this is all about. Seems to have been fairly well documented by numerous people throughout several states. Read whole article here.

BALTIMORE -- The National Weather Service said Monday there is no evidence of any naturally occurring phenomenon to explain bright lights in the eastern sky that prompted hundreds of calls to the service and emergency officials.
Forum: Did You See Anything?E-Mail: Did You Take A Photo? Send It To Us
Callers from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina described brilliant, streaking lights followed by an explosion-like sound at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday.
One 11 News viewer in Carroll County e-mailed to say she "spotted a large fireball in the western sky. It started out being about star brightness, then increasingly got brighter and greener. As it got green, it had an orange sparkling tail...We saw it go almost all the way to the ground before losing sight of it in the trees."
A WBALTV.com visitor who was in Durham, N.C., wrote the following: "I remember seeing something greenish and changing colors. It was leaving a trail (not sure of the color). I never saw it hit the ground either because it faded, got covered by trees, or burnt out."

Saving food

Here is a good link to a blog post with ideas for saving food. The whole blog is pretty good.

Food Preservation

Here is an excellent link explaining four basic methods of food preservation. The whole blog is very good.

Thomas Paine is back

A friend just showed me these videos. I don't know who he is yet but most of what is says is excellent.

Chinese spy who defected tells all

I am including this post from the Washington Times about government spy agencies oppressing Christians and other religious groups in China for two reasons. First, because our fellow believers in China need our prayers. We have heard many, many reports of the persecution that goes on there. You'll hear very little in the news.

I include it secondly because I've read on a number of occasions that oppressive governments hate the truly heart committed Christians because they are one of the only groups that they can not eventually brainwash or terrorize into submission. America is full of half hearted religious people and they would never endure much persecution, but there is also a much smaller remnant of hard core believers. History teaches that they will be persecuted, but will not bow.

A veteran Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United
States says that his country's civilian spy service spends most of its time
trying to steal secrets overseas but also works to bolster Beijing's Communist
Party rule by repressing religious and political dissent internally.

Read the rest...

Is this the end of America?

A few days ago I posted a link to Chris Martenson's video about why there is massive destructive change coming to America. this is an absolute must view. Cancel all your other non essential plans and watch this video series for three hours. See it here.

The title of this entry is the title of an article in the National post. Excellent piece. Read it here.

Here are a couple paragraphs from it.

Reform of health care, environmental policy, education, energy, banking,
regulation — every nook and cranny of the U.S. economy has been put on alert for
major change. Expansion of government spending, plunging the U.S. into
unprecedented deficits, is without parallel. In economic policy, through
regulation and control of energy output, financial services and monetary
expansion, the U.S. government has embarked on a fundamental reshaping of
America. It is designed, in short, to bring on the end of America.

For the rest of the world, however, the worry is that America is at risk of
becoming the fountainhead of a new inflationary outburst. The U.S. dollar is now
in decline, gold is moving sharply higher, and new global currency turmoil is on
the horizon. It may not happen. A paper just published by the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis, source of the chart above, says that the Fed will have to be
prepared to absorb all the excess money it has poured into the U.S. economy. It
will be a technical and political challenge unlike any central bank has ever
undertaken. The future of America is at stake.

Bill HR875 looks like a real freedom buster

The following article is copied directly from American Preppers Network with permission.
Read it here or go to the link above for a more clear copy.

Attack on Your Right to Garden!!!
Looking more into HR875For those who think gardens and small farms are safe under this bill, you need to keep reading deeper into the bill....They've purposely made it so long and boring, that you miss the important parts. Therefore, I've taken out just one small but very important part for you to read.

First of all, "food production facilities" ARE regulated. Sure, Food production facilities are excluded from the same regulation as Food establishments, but fall under separate regulation under section 206. Now, as in the definitions: food production facility' means **any** farm, ranch, orchard, vineyard, aquaculture facility, or confined animal-feeding operation. That is so broad that it could include hobby farms and even gardens. Let's say you have a couple rows of grapes. Can that be a vineyard under their definition? Lets say you have 5 goats and a horse on a 5 acre piece of land. can that be considered a farm? Now go to section 206 Here is just a small part of it. This is where it gets scary....I've highlighted my comments in Blue

SEC. 206. FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES.

(a) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out the duties of the Administrator and the purposes of this Act, the Administrator shall have the authority, with respect to food production facilities, to—(1) visit and inspect food production facilities in the United States and in foreign countries (overstepping their bounds a little eh?)to determine if they are operating in compliance with the requirements of the food safety law;2) review food safety records (are you good at record keeping?) as required to bekept by the Administrator under section 210 and for other food safety purposes;(3) set good practice standards to protect thepublic and animal health and promote food safety;***Notice this part***(4) conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals, plants, products, or the environment, as appropriate; and5) collect and maintain information relevant to public health and farm practices.

(b) INSPECTION OF RECORDS.—A food productionfacility shall permit the Administrator upon presentation of appropriate credentials and at reasonable times and in a reasonable manner, to have access to and ability to copy all records maintained by or on behalf of such food production establishment (Look at this one, I highlighted it in Green, these guys are so STUPID that they are intermingling 2 different defined terms "food establishment" and "food production facility" taking it into context I'm assuming they are talking about a food production facility) in any format (including paper or electronic) and at any location, that are necessary to assist the Administrator— (You want government prying in your personal life more than they already are?)

Plus there's tons more very restrictive legislation. This is an evil bill Co-sponsored by the wife of someone who works for Monsanto.

Not to mention, even if it did specifically exclude gardens, hobby farms and organic farms, which it does not, the cost would be so enormous that our already high food prices would go through the roof....

If Monsanto favors this bill, it cant be good. Now, there are those people out there that think this is a good bill because it "protects us", or those that feel small farms and gardens are safe. But some of the problems are 1) They appoint industry leaders as experts. Who do you think will get to be the "expert" a small organic farmer or the CEO of a major corporate farm? 2) The wording is so broad that it's open to interpretation. 3) They appoint "food police" to enforce these regulations. Now, when the food police come to your "farm" and fine you. You know what they will say? "Sorry, I don't interpret the law, I enforce the law" Can you afford an uphill legal battle to protect your farm, garden, vineyard, orchard, or livestock?

Here's The petition to fight this billHR875 PetitionSign, copy and email this petition to everyone you know. Drop a comment and let the world know you've done your part.

Here's my personal declaration to fight this bill http://americanpreppersnetwork.blogspot.com/2009/03/hr-875.html

**Note, Please copy and forward this article to everyone you know and re-post it to your own websites, just make sure there is a link back to this site so we can get more people involved in fighting this bill

Thank you, Tom

Are we really headed for trouble?

I continue to pray for our nation and our world everyday. I pray that the things which seem inevitable don't actually happen, but I know they could. I came across this web page from a man named Chris Martenson. You can read his profile. He is a capable and interesting man.

Martenson has made a three hour video, for free, explaining why it is impossible for our world to continue past about twenty years without some kind of major crisis. You might not agree with all that he says, but I think you'll have to admit, he makes some really good points. The video is divided into about twenty segments. Watch the first three or four and you have good idea if the rest is something you are interested in. Personally I think this is must view material!

A generator and / or solar

I need to get a generator or some way of creating electric power in my home. Once again, cost is a big issue. However, I'm willing to spend a little for a good product that will serve me for many years.

At first I was all about getting a big generator that would power my whole house if a storm knocked out power for a week or two. But then I saw the prices and read the reviews and my brain finally kicked in.

There are several reasons to stay away from a large 5000 watt plus generator. First, they are expensive. Second, the are expensive to operate. The bigger the engine, the more fuel they use. Third, dependability. It is very likely that this beast will sit unused for long periods of time. I don't want to spend a significant amount of money on something that doesn't work when I really need it. Going big on wattage will most likely mean cutting back on quality. I want an engine that will start reliably. Fourth, portability. If for some reason I decide to bug out, it would be nice to take this baby with me. Big generators weigh hundreds of pounds and are not easy to move.

So my criteria for a generator seem to something close to this: 1) It needs to be big enough to run my well pump. If it will do that, it will do everything else too. 2) It needs to be of fairly decent quality. I'm willing to pay a little more for that, but it has to stay within my anticipated budget. 3) It needs to be portable. I don't want to carry it around with me, but I would like to be able to get it into the back of the family van.

I'm still researching and looking for the right machine. However, another idea has entered my mind and that is the use of solar energy combined with a generator.

Solar has the potential of being useful everyday cutting my monthly electric bill, thus saving me money and helping me pay for the system. Solar would need to be combined with a generator. This has opened up an entire new avenue of study for me: watts, amps, volts, inverters, controllers, tie- ins, etc. Wow. It is a good thing I enjoy reading and learning, because there is a whole lot to learn.

I'll keep posting on this topic as I learn more and finally make my decision and drop the big bucks on something.

Preparing food for long term storage

I've been busy in my evening hours (much too late recently) studying up on a few topics which I think are critical for long term disaster preparedness. Learning how to store food is one of the critical topics. My first goal is to stock pile a few months worth of food and then start adding to it.

As soon as I began looking into this it became clear that it could be a relatively cheap project or a very expensive one. It seems that there are all kinds of whiz bang food storage programs out there for the person with a few thousand dollars to spare. Like this place .

Now I'm not saying there is anything wrong the that company and they probably have great deals. I might even buy some smaller amounts for freeze dried food from them, but I can't go out and stock pile one year of food for all five people in my family all at once. That would be almost $4000. Ouch. I'm not saying that we don't eat that much in food, we do, but I need to buy cheaper and do more myself.

I've been looking for information about how to put up my own food. USA Emergency Supply is an excellent resource. This page explains in good detail how to use dry ice to preserve food in five gallon pails. This could save a lot of money.

Added to the fact that you can prepare and store the food yourself, some foods can be purchased much more economically on your own. I've even heard of some people getting bulk grains straight from mills. This is still new to me and I've got a lot to learn, but it is getting interesting.

When pricing dehydrated food you might think that they are awful expensive, I sure did. But this article explains that it is actually cheaper than buying canned goods right off the shelf. The whole article is very helpful in explaining dehydrated foods.

For an idea about what dehydrated fruits and veggies cost look here.
Or for buying grains look here.

Finally, here are a few other good links to food storage. Here, and here.

Radio Communication in Disaster

If an earth shaking catastrophe takes place, will you be able to communicate with your family? What will you do if you are on your way home from work, only ten miles from your doorstep, but you are unable to get there because of backed up traffic, closed roads, flooding, civil unrest, etc? Your family may be scared and worried but they can't get in touch with you because cell phone communication has been altered. This might be a time when you wish you had prepared by having some sort of radio backup system, say, CB radios, or ham radios. This blog gives some great introductory info about radio communication. A good place to get started.

Very scary bill taking your freedom to raise food

I just came across this information at this blog. Very scary.

Again, I'm a little late to catch the News. But I'm going to give my rant
about this too.Establishment of a Food Safety Administration. HR875....Now
we are going to have Food Police!!!This is a very long bill, I've read it, and
it does pretty much everything that Alex Jones suggests it does. Check this link
for a summary
http://www.prisonplanet.com/bill-to-ban-organic-farming.htmlThe way that
this bill is worded, how broad it is, and all the powers it gives to the new
bureaucracy, could very easily criminalize every farmer and home gardener in
this country! It could basically require you to comply with the regulations, to
catalog, track and keep records on all livestock and food that you produce or
grow.This Bill Must NOT get passed! It could very well be the single most
destructive bill to our freedom that our government has ever introduced! This by
far dwarfs the Keto ruling and any gun law that has been or is in the works.
This affects our right to Eat!!!
Big Brother, You have thrown down the
gauntlet on this one and I accept your Challenge!
YOU WILL NOT REGULATE WHAT
I EAT!!!! PERIOD!

Urban Warfare Drills Linked To Coming Economic Rage

It is a little scary when the US military is doing drills to prepare for civil unrest. Read about it here.

Money saving tips for preperation

I've linked to this web site before, but this page is worth looking at. He gives a great list of ways to prepare for disaster and save money too. See it here.

Reagan - Obama Debate