Re: Top 100 Statistics about collapse of the Economy
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10/07/2011 01:05 PM
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Re: Top 100 Statistics about collapse of the Economy
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10/07/2011 01:25 PM
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Need to order Survivors. Read Patriots and How to Survive.... and both were excellent. I've been doing this for a long time and still took a lot of notes from How to Survive... One thing I never thought about he mentioned is storing salt blocks to aid in harvesting deer after a collapse.
Interesting thing I heard off shortwave (from internet) and googled to verify was that 7,000,000 starved during the Great Depression. That was 5% of the US population. Today 48,000,000 people are on food stamps or 16% of the US population.
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Re: Top 100 Statistics about collapse of the Economy
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10/07/2011 01:41 PM
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Originally posted by Total Resistance:
One thing I never thought about he mentioned is storing salt blocks to aid in harvesting deer after a collapse. Not to change the subject, but you touched on a conversation I had with another deer hunter just this morning. Older guys probably know this, but this is one of those things that is slowly being forgotten. On the inside back legs of deer, there is a dark, oily patch of hair. These are the musk glands of deer, and most articles I've read for the past thirty or forty years advise just to cut around them, not letting the musk touch the meat you want to keep. Well, that is just a terrible waste. Cut around and remove the glands--hair, skin, and all--and place in a glass jar with a tight-fitting lid. Cover with cheap vodka (the original recipe, from my grandfather, calls for "good quality moonshine," but cheap vodka works just as well). Shake well a couple times the first week, then leave in a cool, dark place until spring. Strain through cheesecloth, and pour into bottles. This is tincture of deer musk. It is a great deer attractor, and is also valuable as a dog-breaking scent. Before deer and predator hunters began inexplicably slathering themselves with skunk scent thinking it would hide their own scent (it doesn't), they were using this to help hide their scent. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Top 100 Statistics about collapse of the Economy
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10/07/2011 02:51 PM
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GOOD books, go back to them constantly for reference. If you order both from amazon seems like I got both for 15 bucks last year.
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Re: Top 100 Statistics about collapse of the Economy
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10/07/2011 06:27 PM
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The Mainstreaming of Survivalism by John Wesley, Rawles When a news giant like CNBC starts quoting SurvivalBlog at length, then obviously we are starting filter into the mainstream of public consciousness. Here is an article that is a case in point: Buying Coins to Hedge Against Inflation . As one reader put it: "It brings a smile to my face when we're way ahead of the curve." By the way, I hope you've already got your nickels squared away. You've had plenty of warning, since I first mentioned this in SurvivalBlog back in 2007. The window of opportunity for acquiring nickels before their debasement is likely to close soon. Don't get me wrong... I don't expect the nation to suddenly go all Rawlesian--with everyone from 18 to 80 toting .45s, voting for Ron Paul, getting right with God, putting in big gardens and laying in two year food supplies. The shift of a survivalist mindset won't come until after there is a major "Crunch". But once this shift occurs, it will be profound. In fact, I predict that in the aftermath of a full scale socioeconomic collapse, there will be no more "survivalists", per se. There will just be survivors, and statistics. The paradigm shift to prepper mindset will become so ubiquitous that it will simply be the norm. Hence, it might not even carry any special appellation. I'm sure that most of you reading this have grandparents that lived through the Great Depression, and surely you witnessed them carrying on with the rest of their lives being very thrifty, avoiding debt, and wasting nothing. Just think of that effect amplified a hundred-fold. That will become the collective mindset of the next generation: Armed to the teeth, distrustful of statists and unsound currencies, and feeling compelled to always keep a very well-stocked pantry. That will be the new "normal"--the new mainstream. That should last for a generation or two. Then, inevitably, complacency will set in, and the cycle will repeat. That is human nature. Onward and upward, airforce
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