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Before we get started with this week’s segment I would like to thank everyone who bought my new book “The Prepper’s Primer: Gear, Skills and Related Know-How” so far all of the reviews from buyers have been 100% positive.
Unfortunately, the 25% off introductory price came to an end last night at 12:00 am – however the book is still available at the full price which is still a steal for the amount of information that you get. The book is really a detailed look into my full survival plans and personal preps.
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As we embark on this new year it’s almost inevitable to make some sort of resolutions. Maybe not all of them are the classic: “I will stop smoking/ eat healthier/loose weight, etc”, but one that I know for sure should be on every list is improving your skills.
And staying on top of your homestead means just that. So we’re dedicating this prep blog review to making sure you never run out on ideas on how to improve your homesteading skills.
1. Making Money on the Homestead
“One of the reasons people choose to live a more self-reliant life and homestead is to get away from money. They don’t want their life to be focused solely on making money.
The trouble with that is, you really can’t get completely away from needing some of that ol’ ‘trading paper.’Some scoff at people who homestead and still buy things from the store but even the pioneers of old had to get supplies from the trading post!
Unless you are growing crops to sell off, raising livestock to sell, or have a foot in both worlds and hold down a day job, you will need money to buy the things you can’t produce: gasoline is a prime example of just one of the things you need money to buy. ”
“Winter is upon us again and with it comes storms that can cause wide spread or localized power outages. Losing power in winter does cause many more deaths than a power outage in the summer.
So how do you protect yourself and your loved ones during those cold dark hours? Read on and I will share some of the ways we do it…”
“Have you ever wondered how you could become a homesteader? Have you ever wanted to start over from the ground up and grow your own food and live a life being off grid?”
“In most areas, January is the start of bee school. If you’re thinking about getting started with beekeeping, I highly recommend you go take the class.
(To find a class, google your state’s beekeepers association and then contact them.)
One of the first things you learn at bee school is the honey bee’s life cycle. Now, I’ll admit I was slightly bored by the teacher’s presentation on this topic. And since I was still a little squeamish about bees, I was kinda grossed out too. I’ll be honest with you, at the time, I wondered Why the heck do I need to know this?”
5. Make Healthy Home Cooking a Habit by Stocking the Essentials
“Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other developed nation. Only 60 percent of U.S. dinners were cooked at home last year, and about one-third of Americans eat fast food weekly.12
There’s nothing wrong with eating out occasionally. But studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that home cooking encourages healthier eating.3 In one study of 9,500 people, the group who cooked the most consumed more fiber, fewer carbohydrates, and less sugar.4 “Cooking is probably the most important thing you can do to improve your diet. … It’s the collapse of home cooking that led directly to the obesity epidemic,” says Michael Pollen, food activist and author of Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation.5”
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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, drivers in the United States generate nearly 300 million used tires each year. I think you would agree letting such a mountain of a resource go to waste would be a bad thing and since I love using “free stuff” around the retreat, I’ve been brainstorming ideas on how I can put them to use around my place.
Here are a few of the ideas I’ve come up with…
1. Old tires work great for building cheap raised bed gardens – Aside from my posts on using old tires in the garden, Charles Sanders has an excellent...
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1.) Feds Arrest 2 Refugees on Terror-Related Charges: But King Obama thinks Americans and the second Amendment are the real danger. If he really cared and wanted to protect Americans then he would not insist on bringing hundreds of thousands of these “refugees” into American towns and cities.
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It’s that time of year again – snow season. If you live in a nice, new home you may already have decent insulation that keeps your heat in and your heating bill as low as possible.
But if you don’t, you’re probably dreading those drafts. You probably try to block the drafts, or maybe you even block off entire rooms trying to keep the house warm, but how about using snow for insulation?
If you’re an avid reader of Consumer Reports, the bad news is that heating costs will sky-rocket this winter. Yes, you heard that right. Again.
In the scary side of the news, scientists now believe that we’re going to enter a mini-Ice Age, a few years ahead, due to Sun’s slowing activity. Indeed, goodbye Global Warming, hello Ice Age.
According to the Energy Information Administration, the average American household spends approximately $930 every winter on heating costs alone, and we’re talking about homes heating primarily with electricity. The figure is higher for people using propane ($1417) and lower for natural gas ($578).
Anyway, you must keep in mind that these figures are sourced for this winter’s forecast, which is expected to be very mild, milder than in the previous years. Mild or not, I bet it’s going to be very cold, especially if you’re not living in Florida.
Fortunately, there are things that can be done to mitigate the cold winter months ahead, so keep reading. I mean, regardless of the NOA predictions or what the Farmer’s Almanac says, if you can cut on your heating bill won’t hurt you, right?
A Few Survival Models to Copy
Now, if you’re the outdoors type, you probably noticed that wild animals and even stray dogs sometimes bury themselves in the snow when it’s freezing, and there’s a good reason for that.
Basically, they dig a hole in the snow and they manage to survive in that fashion even in -20 F temperatures. There are even species of animals that dig snow-burrows, where they hibernate for months, during the winter season. This obviously means that snow makes for an excellent insulator.
Also, you may be familiar with the concept of igloos. You know, those “houses” made of snow, or snow huts Inuit people are often associated with. Besides igloos, Inuit people used snow on a daily basis to insulate their whalebone/hide-made shelters. What makes snow such a good insulator?
Well, the answer is pretty straight forward: the air pockets which are trapped in the snow make it an outstanding insulator.
Why Is the Snow Working for Insulation?
To get an idea, even if the outside temperatures are as low as 19 degrees Fahrenheit, in a snow hut you can achieve 61 degrees Fahrenheit using body heat alone, provided we’re talking about a burrow, not a palace; i.e. a small fox-hole, large enough to fit you, so it can be heated sufficiently by body temperature alone.
The best snow in terms of insulation is fresh snow, because it contains a high percentage of air caught between the ice crystals. Fresh snow is basically all air, up to 95%, and that’s why it’s so light. Since the air is firmly trapped inside and it cannot move freely, the heat transfer is significantly reduced.
So, using snow for insulating your home doesn’t seem so farfetched now, does it?
That brings us to the next factoid: did you know that 10 inches of fresh snow, which is basically five to seven percent water, is the equivalent of a 6 inch layer of fiberglass insulation? That makes for an R-value of 18 (I told you about R-values in a previous article, check that out folks).
All these facts make snow the greenest insulator of them all (it’s natural, right?) and the cheapest too, because it’s like, you know, free?
Snow’s thermal conductivity, which is the scientific term that describes that R-value thing, can be described mathematically and it works in tandem with the snow density. The denser the snow, the greater thermal conductivity. So, if you want to use snow for insulation purposes, the best snow is the fresh driven/super-light-fluffy snow, as heat moves through it relatively slowly.
Also, using snow for insulating your house spells fun, especially for your kids, making it for a great DIY project.
Just think about the concept for a minute, isn’t it beautiful folks? It makes you wonder about the old times, when people knew squat about central heating (okay, maybe excepting the Romans) and yet they managed to survive.
Yes, I know they had wood stoves and stuff like that, yet they didn’t even dream about our high-tech fiber-glass insulation. Or did they? Actually, we’ve already shown that at least some of them did. The bottom line is that when people HAVE to make due, they tend to be quite creative.
Enter snow, the all green-all natural insulator used back in the day by the common folk for insulation purposes.
How did they do it? Well, those living on farms used to drive six foot posts into the ground about 3 feet from the sides of the house, right before winter set in. After that, they used to pile straw between the house walls and the respective posts. After the first big snow, they packed the snow over the straw, creating something resembling a wall of ice.
That insulating wall stayed there until the spring, when it melted away. This ingenious yet primitive makeshift insulation really performed miracles, by keeping the winter cold out and the heat inside the house.
Now, imagine a blackout in the aftermath of a snow storm. No central heat or electric to power space heaters, and it’s going to get cold fast! You have to move the snow anyway, to clear your driveway and the sidewalks, so while you’re at it, why not put some elbow grease into the mix and pile a layer of snow (one – one and a half foot thick) up against your house?
It will help you a lot with insulation, just by shoveling it from the roof and the steps of your house. You’re killing two birds with one stone, right? The only thing to keep in mind is when spring comes around, you’ll have to shovel the snow away.
Another idea for putting the wintery blanket to good use would be to let it sit on your roof, depending on how solid the roof is built. If it’s built properly, a layer of snow will provide you with additional insulation, for free, but in case of heavy snow-fall, make sure you don’t allow more than two feet of snow to accumulate there.
Too much snow on your roof may translate into leaks, it may damage your roof when it slides off, or it may even collapse the roof, and that, obviously, would be pretty terrible.
Snow accumulating in decent amounts on your roof, without melting in certain unusual spots, is a testimony that your attic is doing its job, meaning there’s no heat loss through the roof, due to poor insulation.
A properly insulated home doesn’t show bare patches of melted snow on the roof. Hence, beside its insulation advantages, snow will act as an early warning system.
If you own a log cabin, you can use snow for banking, to keep it warm during the winter season. Usually, log cabins tend to leak air; hence the heat escapes during the cold season. To mitigate this problem, they are chinked with mud. Sooner or later though, especially when it gets very cold, the mud falls out, leaving cracks between the respective logs.
After the first snow, you can use the snow to bank the cabin walls again. Do it every time you can, until you pile up mounds of snow against the cabin’s walls, creating your own personal igloo on top of your log-cabin. In this way, you’ll be considerably warmer inside, and if you live in a cold area, any extra degree inside would be welcome, don’t you think?
All things equal, while snow makes for an excellent insulator, don’t bet on snow alone for shielding you from the cold. I mean, what are you going to do if faced with a low snow year?
If you have suggestions or comments, feel free to use the dedicated section below!
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As most of us know by now, the 2nd Amendment is all that stands between freedom and all out totalitarianism. It is the backbone of all other freedoms and rights, in a world gone raving mad with domination over others. That’s why the visionary Framers made it an absolutely unqualified, uncontrollable, ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’ for ANY reason, guaranteed individual right, period!
I saved this article for after the holidays so as not to depress anyone too much more than we already are with this out of control regime while we all were trying to enjoy what little we have left of their precious American Constitutional guarantee of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But something happened.
We all just heard on the news that ‘he’s’ at it again with despotic fiat attempts at circumventing the Constitution, like some king, or supreme theocratic ruler, or marxist dictator, or whatever he thinks he is.
This time it’s his New Year’s resolution finally getting his illegal private citizen background check (gun sale registration) for future confiscation scam going again, with a little salt in the wounds of Freedom by also making everyone on a No Fly List forbidden from having a gun, if he can sneak that in through the ’back door’ of his administrative fiats.
Never mind that the No Fly List is also constitutionally illegal, literally throwing all Bill of Rights guarantees of due process right out the third floor window! And that so many people are on it who don’t belong on it but have no recourse but to hire a lawyer spending months and years fighting it without any guarantee of getting off the list–including even a few high ranking Government officials-that it amounts to nothing less than old fashioned Gestapo tricks to eliminate your ’opposition’?
The No Fly List (part two of the ‘control all personal free movement’ agenda along with part one, the illegal I.D. card requirement in the form of the 2005 ‘Real I.D. Act’) is a genuine abusive decree because the decisions about who gets on the list are done in secret by some hack State Dept bureaucrat based only on subjective determinations with NO clearly delineated legal criteria, other than a dubious belief of potential terrorist connections! Beat THAT, Adolph, Stalin, Mao, and the rest of you old boy JV team! ACLU, where the hell are YOU!
And as long as POTUS is getting away with all this albeit with much media consternation and question, he is still laughing and holding hands with the executioner all the way to the people’s rights gallows. Only Rand Paul stood up to the task and recently introduced a Senate Bill to preclude such ‘presidential’ executive orders without Congressional approval anytime they are in conflict with Constitutional reference.
Unfortunately a case of too little too late. Fat chance it does any good now because of how long the procedure and final voting takes. Meanwhile the noose on the neck of the 2nd/A is tightening. They get away with it because our reps let them. And WE let our reps get away with letting Obama do it!
How Bad Is It?
It’s worse than bad. The tipping point of tyranny has finally fallen over into the hands of the enemy camp. Totalitarian gun grabbers are now winning strongly. Free American patriots are losing miserably. This President and his anti-Constitutional ‘think tank’ must have been staying up long nights guzzling oceans of taxpayer funded black coffee to have a plan ready to seize upon current agenda advantageous circumstances.
Amazingly they’ve even somehow garnished enough funding for this De Facto background check gun registration decree to hire hundreds of new FBI and BATFE agents to facilitate and manage this latest criminal act against the people’s privacy rights to own a gun while they cut back on Social Security benefits and still haven’t adequately brought the VA up to much needed financial improvements for disabled combat vets!
What Triggered This Bold Attack by Obama on the 2nd/A?
Obama became tactically emboldened with new polls in the recent months including a Pew Poll report indicating that over half the population would agree to expanded background checks (aka gun registration) for private citizen sales if it helped reduce ‘bad’ people from getting guns. Which eventually includes the interpretation of ’bad’ people and the attendant Fiat laws to potentially include almost each and every one of us who disagree with the regime.
This doesn’t really mean that most people agree with anti-Constitutional gun control, it simply reflects that totalitarian mind control strategies have worked better than expected under this regime. And that far too many Americans have succumbed to the bait and switch and hook of the mythical nanny state comfort zone. Which is nothing less than falling victim to the most insidiously evil plot to eventually enslave an entire nation of people ever devised by a modern government. The Great Gun Control Hoax!
In association with the regime’s agenda, and while nobody seemed to care or pay attention to any level of statutory tyranny proliferation on the state levels, the totalitarian Cosa Nostra wasted no time during Obama’s reign consolidating their forces in a pincer maneuver with New York in the East and California in the West– which on New Year’s day put statewide background check registration into law including special police units to enforce compliance in house to house sweeps if necessary, already situated in designation!
And the disease is spreading as totalitarian billionaires are donating inexhaustible funds to ensure totalitarian legislatures get in at state levels to continue expanding anti-gun laws throughout the country replicating those New York and California.
At least 18 or more states now have similar laws, and the estimate is that if this agenda continues, over half the United States will have draconian anti-2nd/A laws by the year’s end! And this doesn’t include the many Federal level anti-2nd/A death blow bills currently waiting for nothing else but another totalitarian regime POTUS and Congress to be voted in power next year!
The Real Reason for the Treason
The POTUS, his regime, and their misled minions, actually have no confusion about this. They all know the stupidity of their vacuous arguments for gun control. They are fully aware that ‘Shall Not Be Infringed’ clearly means no gun control restrictions or laws whatsoever, of any kind.
They know that restrictions or bans on material items can never solve a problem that is fundamentally an aberration of the human behavior mechanism which manifests itself in harmful social actions. They know gun control has never and will never stop gun violence or criminals from getting weapons.
They know the 1934 NFA and 1968 GCA and all other gun control efforts are, and always were, anti-Constitutional. President Johnson rattlesnaked this law through while most people were still snoozing from trying to wake up from Viet Nam. This same law would never pass again today.
Every day more TOTALITARIANS are coming full blast out of the closet and are no longer even defending their ‘rationale’ for gun control with specious notions of good public safety intentions.
They actually will now admit they want to exercise absolute control over people with too much freedom on their hands, and too many guns in those hands. Especially when the sheeple population explosion gets too large for the ’controllers’ to manage every time they need to be fleeced for necessary government profit margins. So they don’t want their government backed paramilitary police to have to face angry people–particularly the ‘Molon Labe’ types– who have the idea that they really need their silly freedoms shouting ‘Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death’ while holding millions of AR-15’s!
So killing the Constitution is not even denied any more. The truth is that the totalitarians fully understand completely what it takes to facilitate a Marxist/Fascist agenda, which is a complete erasure of the 2nd/Amendment by any means possible. Which means spreading lies, and providing whatever public bribery they can facilitate for their minions–followed by the complete functional disarmament of the population to emasculate any future form of public protest, popular resistance, civil disobedience from becoming a formidable physical revolution against the regime.
Sadly, too many of ‘We, The People’ still don’t get that or believe it. Even though they slap us in the face with it every chance they get.
Any Hope for a Miracle from… God?
The tyrant in Hunger Games said profoundly that “hope is stronger than fear” when talking about oppressing the people. But he forgot to mention that hopes are easily crushed and bypassed in active physical movements, because as Einstein said, “nothing happens until something moves”.
We can hope all we want. But that doesn’t get things done to change anything. And it is the devout responsibility of each of us as American citizens to protect our precious liberties.
The sad irony is that that human nature in Americans always causes them to default to try to then do a reverse ‘back door’ approach to the problem to counter the G’s initiatory back door attack.
They’ll say things like I’ll just hide my stuff or hurry up and buy more of what I need privately before the mandate goes into effect, or get beer ballsy in their delusions of revolutions by saying Molan Labe as if it remained a viable solution. When all that does is make it easier to profile potential dissidents with the latest government NSA spying expansion (oh, you didn’t know about that either?) so they wind up just buying more weapons for government storm troopers to confiscate when they come knocking.
Unfortunately we can no longer wait until the last minute. The new ’majority’ of so called democratic Americans are turn coat Tories who welcome the totalitarian nanny state and will gladly succumb to the leftist agenda and vote according to their master’s commands.
Remember, the original revolutionary patriots also amounted to less than the majority in America at that time. But we won our liberty and justice by getting off our asses and organizing and spreading the word. Part of that is spreading the ’serious’ word to our Representatives who are our employees.
Let’s do something this week by contacting our Reps and asking a simple question like “so…Ms./Mr. Representative, what are you going to do for a living after your term ends, if you let this regime get away with this illegal gun registration mandate?”
And then ask them “why hasn’t anyone introduced a bill to repeal the 1034 NFA Act and the 68 GCA for starters? You didn’t waste time getting a repeal going for the AHC act because the insurance lobbies were so nice to you? So let’s get with it on the most important illegal law Repeal in our lifetimes. If you like that nice taxpayer provided office and bennies from your Constituency?”
Otherwise, if the FBI folds to the power and influence of the current regime, and ‘can’t determine any indictable evidence’ and Hillary is the candidate, and the RINOs in the GOP can’t get their unification act together and totally support the outsider front runners, then it’s over for our 2nd/A. No exchanges, no refunds.
I know Trump and Cruz vow to use their executive order power to delete all gun control measures as soon as they get their fingers on the POTUS White House Pen set. But that ain’t in stone yet. Remember Romney? Nobody thought he could lose. Remember also that the House and Senate are also in the race, and like State G reps, the totalitarian billionaires are also funding the Leftist U.S. Reps.
The house only needs a dozen or so to shift the balance and the Senate only needs a net Democratic gain of 5 senators to end the life of all liberties, if Hillary is elected. ALL your guns that are now universal background check registered will also be subject to universal confiscations based on ‘public safety’ as ‘administratively’ determined necessary. This will be often and swift.
And the laughing leftist totalitarians will never look back.
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We have all read about the street children in Argentina after the economic collapse there, who wander the streets begging, stealing and scrounging through trash to survive.
Many were forced into child labor and prostitution. Some by their own parents that could not support them or worse exploiting them for their own gain. In many ways children suffer most after a disaster.
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1.) Tenn. politicians respond to President Obama’s gun control address : This is another public relations stunt from President Obama that is only aimed at satisfying his desire to go down in history as a liberal icon. These executive actions represent another assault on the Constitution by this President.
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A few days ago I bought “The Lost Ways” by Claude Davis, a 350 page book that I’ve just finished reading today, and I can tell you that I enjoyed every page of it. It’s funny how after 15 years of prepping you still learn new things.
Of course, the ideas were new for me and probably for most of us, but these things are actually very old. But Claude Davis got it right: “The SHTF we all prep for is what folks 150 years ago called daily life.”
I’ve been looking for something like this for years, so, I wanted to thank Claude for putting together this book and making this lost knowledge available to every prepper and patriot at an affordable price.
Yesterday I called him just to find out that we live only 200 miles apart. I said that I wanted to get to know the man behind the book. He said he also knew me from my website and wanted to meet me too, so I got my recorder and jumped into my van.
When I arrived at his place, I felt like I had traveled back in time. Claude is and old-fashioned guy by any standard. He lives with his wife and two children in a log cabin he had built, cooks outside on an open flame in a cauldron most of the time, and all of his clothes are handmade.
He has a 150-square-foot root cellar stuffed with all sorts of homemade canned foods and goods and he raises cows, sheep and chickens. I thought several times to myself that this guy will never be troubled by any crisis. We chit-chatted a little bit then we sat by the fireplace and our interview began.
Me: Claude, how did you get the idea for saving the lost ways of our great grandparents?
Claude: Well, Alec, it all began when I understood that we are the last generation that can truly do something about it. As Americans, we are reaching a tipping point. For hundreds of years, we passed this knowledge from generation to generation. That had been the way until a few decades ago, when we found out that it’s a lot easier and a lot more comfortable living in a Big Mac era. But all these indulgences come with a price. We’ve sacrificed our knowledge, our health and our entire independent lifestyle..
America is changing, Alec. And I don’t think it’s for the better. That’s because people won’t change for the better. Just turn on the TV. We’re becoming a nation full of spoiled brats and super trendy metrosexuals. Where are the men and women who took matters into their own hands and who put their heads into work and turned this country into the world’s First Power? We need more people like that. America needs more ‘pioneers’! Now it’s the time to teach our children the lost values of our great grandparents.
Me: When I read “The Lost Ways” I felt that it also conveyed something a little more personal; something that the eyes can’t see, but that one can read between the lines. Am I right?
Claude: Yes! It’s probably the memory of my grandparents. I was raised by them and I cannot remain 100 percent detached while I talk about those moments. Even now, I remember that on winter days as a small child, I’d run home from school to my grandparents’ house, where there was always the most delicious, salty, thick bowl of stew you can imagine waiting for me. It seemed to contain every ingredient known to humankind. It had meat of some kind, barley and lentils, onions, potatoes and carrots. It was one of the most memorable tastes of my childhood.
I once asked my grandmother how to make that stew. She told me that it was the stew of paupers and was made from anything she could find. The meat was the cheap cuts from the butchers, or leftovers from previous meals. The vegetables she had grown herself and the lentils and barley were there to ‘fill you up’. The point is that my nanna knew how to maximize the use of food; to not waste food. Throwing out food was not even an option.
About a third of all food we produce is wasted and thrown away. As I wrote in my book: Feel what it’s like to truly starve and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.
Our grandparents had it right. And not just about food. They knew that resources are finite; that self-reliance is crucial to survival. No one knows the future, and in the dark place that our world has found itself in today, that future is certainly not assured. Now, more than ever, we need to learn the lost skills of our grandparents.
Me: Claude, what do you think is the most noticeable difference between our grandparents way of life and ours?
Claude: One of the most important changes is that of our attitudes and expectations. They were doers. We’re consumers. The ‘make do and mend’ attitude was probably the second most important survival tool that they had. My granddad bartered and swapped various items for meat, which was a treat for the family, rather than thinking of it as a daily entitlement as meat is now. Our grandparents’ generation would be both shocked and dismayed at their grandchildren’s dependency on others. The self-reliance that they had in terms of everyday living, puts us to shame.
Me: You said ‘the second most important survival tool’. What was their first?
Claude: Their survival knowledge. This is what I wanted to bring back to life in “The Lost Ways”. Not just their attitude, but some pretty interesting things that they did or built. And I didn’t want to just mention them, but to actually show people how they did these things, like in a DIY guide. This is how it turned into a 350 page book and almost 5 years of work.
Me: Was it worth it?
Claude: Hell yeah! I’m getting around 30 emails a day from people who thank me and ask me about “The Lost Ways”. Here, let me just read an e-mail I’ve just received: “Thanks for this wonderful book Claude. I cannot believe how many things we’ve lost along the way. The brilliance of your book is that it offers a proven way to achieve self-sufficiency without investing any money. This is by far the best survival advice I’ve read so far!”
How can you not be glad when you get a message like this? In fact, you called me to say thanks, right? Your phone call made my day! So I guess I can say it was all worth it.
Me: I know the feeling, Claude. I have the same feeling about “Backyard Liberty”. What about the bonuses, and especially “The Can Rotator”? What a great idea. Did you build it yourself?
Claude: Yes. Last year we had around 30 cans of food that had to be thrown away. We totally forgot about them and they passed their expiration date. If you do the math at an average of $2.50 a can, you’ll come up with $75 thrown away. Plus I have a problem with wasting food. So I decided to build a can rotator system with only $75, but it turned out I needed a little bit more. With $95, I build a system that will keep all my cans up to date and easy to maintain and verify. And it also looks pretty nice. You’ve seen it in the root cellar.
Me: I’m going to build one for myself. So, Claude, as you know, this interview will be posted on Survivopedia. Please tell me your last thoughts and why should people get “The Lost Ways”?
Claude: Well, first because now they can. I wanted to buy something like this so badly that I would’ve paid at least a few hundreds. Now it’s pretty easy and cheap. People are spending money on a lot of stupid things, but I really can’t think of something better and more useful that you can buy with $37. Can you?
Second, because it’s the most practical survival knowledge that you can find out there. I’m a prepper myself and I read a lot of survival articles and books, but there’s nothing like this! This knowledge has been tested for centuries and is proven to work not only in a crisis, but on a daily basis. This is why I call it “practical”.
Third, because it’s an investment. “The Lost Ways” will help you save hundreds of dollars every month starting from day ONE. You’ll save money on groceries, on electricity, on medicine, on ammo, and a lot more. Self-reliance will save you hundreds of dollars every year—while making you stronger, tougher, healthier, and wiser.
And fourth, because I feel that it’s our duty as Americans and to our great grandfathers to preserve their ways and not let them disappear forever.
Can I ask you a question, Alec? What was your favorite part of “The Lost Ways”?
Me: Hard to say. I liked it all. But if I have to name one chapter, it is probably the one with the sailors from the 18th century and how they preserved water and food on their ships, about the rum rations and the silver coins. I must admit that I’ll probably rethink the way I stock and preserve water. They did it better and easier.
Our conversation was a lot longer and we talked about lots of things, but it’s not the main focus of this article. I’m glad I met the man behind the book. He’s truly one of a kind, so if you’re interested in saving the lost ways of our great-grandparents, Claude has made a nice video that I’m sure you’re going to love.
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Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a definite rise in political correctness. Not only are they now trying to control our speech with it, but the left is using this insidious method to literally control society.
There is no question that political correctness reached a new high in 2015, even going so far as to ban the Confederate battle flag and remove historic monuments from many southern states.
The whole concept of political correctness is insidious. It’s one of the left’s many tools that they use to control the right, trying to force us to conform to their will. In that, it’s no different than Muslims trying to force others to live under Sharia Law or Communists forcing people to bow to the state. It’s all about control and using fear to control people.
We have to understand that fear is the mechanism that is used to implement political correctness. We who are controlled by it are afraid of being labeled racist, sexist or any other “ist” that the left comes up with. It’s as if those words were true badges of dishonor and that we would be permanently branded with them, much like the woman in “The Scarlet Letter.”
Well, I think we could all learn a lesson from Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter. She didn’t hide her letter, but wore it boldly, like a soldier wearing a medal. She was proud of who she was and if others didn’t like it, that was their problem.
While I don’t agree with adultery, I do agree with standing up for who you are. Fortunately, more and more conservatives are getting fed up with political correctness and finally taking a stand against it, regardless of the consequences. I’m not just talking about politicians either; everyday people are taking a stand as well, even when they know it’s going to cost them.
The thing is, if we don’t take a stand against political correctness, the liberals are going to get their way and succeed in controlling us. They will do it with nothing more than nasty words and name calling. In other words, we will be allowing them to control us with their immaturity.
How many times have you seen it? A liberal and a conservative are discussing an issue and the liberal runs out of arguments. That’s not too hard, as all they have are their emotional talking points. Once they run out, they resort to name calling, generally using the term “racist” but if that doesn’t apply then any of a number of other names that they have readily memorized in their arsenal.
But political correctness goes far beyond name calling. In a sense, we can call the movement #BlackLivesMatter a political correctness movement. They have decided on a particular narrative and are using violence to silence anyone who disagrees with it. Actually, they’re even using violence against those who haven’t disagreed with it, but simply haven’t yet agreed with their stance forcibly enough. In this, they are intimidating people, especially politicians, into supporting their cause.
The LGBT community is doing the same. Although they represent only about two percent of the population, they are controlling much of the political agenda of this country. In some ways, they’ve succeeded in eliminating the First Amendment rights of the rest of the country, simply by calling everything that is said against them a hate crime. By invoking those magic words, they’ve turned ordinary law-abiding citizens into criminals, complete with criminal penalty.
Or what about the law suits which the LGBT community has succeeded in bringing against businesses who refuse to serve them, specifically those who refuse to serve their weddings? For most of my life, businesses had the right to refuse service to anyone. The only exception was to that was critical services, such as utilities or medical services. But today, Christian businesses who refuse to support their weddings are charged with hate crimes and fined out of business by the government. The worst part of that is that they purposely seek out those businesses, just so that they can attack them.
Every leftist special interest group is taking part in political correctness these days. They are the purveyors of this insidious system and the creators of its rules. All any of them have to do is get the media to agree with their definition, and the new politically correct term is used or the new politically incorrect term is flagged for abusing anyone who uses it.
It is the media, more than anyone else, who controls the whole political correctness machine. As agents of the leftist agenda, they are the promoters and purveyors of leftist ideology. News stories are selected and even changed to match the talking points of the left, taking every opportunity to villainize anyone who doesn’t toe the line.
The Long Way to Nobody’s Freedom
I have to say that this system has grown through the years. When I was a young man, we had something called Freedom of Speech. If others were offended by what was said, they had a right to respond, or in extreme circumstances, take a swing at the speaker. Political correctness seeks to suppress those rights, with the ultimate goal of eliminating them.
We must understand that this is the ultimate goal of political correctness. The elitist left can’t eliminate our Constitutional Rights, no matter how much they want to. So, they have to use other means, specifically social pressure.
Eric Holder referred to this in the context of eliminating our Second Amendment right to bear arms, but that’s not the only place where the left is using it. They are specifically attacking our rights of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion, both guaranteed under the First Amendment.
This is why it is so important that we take a stand against political correctness. We need to point out its hypocrisy wherever we see it. We also need to be willing to be labeled as a racist or any other type of “ist” the PC police want to use. If we allow fear to rule us, we will end up losing our rights.
Fortunately, mainstream America is getting fed up with this and the silent majority is taking a stand. Many are finding their voices and speaking out against this insidious insanity. Conservative actors, singers, politicians and businessmen are using their pulpit to make their voice heard. In doing so, they are making our voice heard as well.
We need to add our voice to this. It’s great that Donald Trump, Charles Daniels and Chuck Norris take a stand; but we can’t allow them to stand alone. We too must take our stand, declaring that this country was established on freedom and that the PC police have no Constitutionally authorized authority to take that freedom away from us. If we don’t, they will keep pushing until we lose that freedom.
Perhaps this is one of the greatest things to come out of the 2016 elections. Trump started it, with his politically incorrect statements, which resonated with so many. He gave voice to what many were thinking and is wealthy enough that he doesn’t care whether people like what he says or not. The thing is, lots of people like what he is saying, even some on the other side of the aisle.
It isn’t Trumps wealth alone that makes it possible for him to be politically incorrect so successfully. If it were, then the Koch Brothers would get away with it too. Yet they are villainized regularly by the political left. No, Trump has something more going for him; he knows how to work with the media.
Trump has been accused more than once of being a showman and of turning the elections into a circus. The thing is, in doing just that, he’s kept the media’s eye on him, allowing him to speak his mind so effectively. While the PC police have screamed “Foul” at every statement he’s made, the American people, especially those on the right, have stood with him and have done so in ever increasing numbers.
Regardless of who ends up winning the 2016 presidential elections, we need to continue taking a stand against political correctness. The Germans didn’t do that in the 1930s, due to fear of the NAZI Brown shirts. That cost them their nation. Well, guess what? We’re facing the very same thing today.
Maybe the current crop of PC police doesn’t wear brown shirts and maybe they’re not spouting off the same slogans, but they’re using the same methods. They are intimidating anyone who disagrees with them, sometimes with words, and when that doesn’t work, with violence.
The point is, the results will be the same. We either stand up to the PC police or they will take control. Then, the country will become the socialist “paradise” that they want and any of us who try to take a stand will be silently carted off to a labor camp somewhere. If that’s not what you want, it’s time to take a stand.
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