Financial Collapse Update: Ron Paul Warning - Bubble is ready to POP

Ron Paul Institute

We all know that it must happen eventually so it's all about timing and events to precipitate it.  China is setting itself up to be safe from much of it based on their Gold purchases and so is Russia.  Countries like Germany and France have repatriated their Gold from the USA vaults so that should tell you something.  The power brokers know what is coming and are protecting themselves and will again leave the rest of us holding the bag so to speak, and in this case the bag will probably be filled with manure.

What to do:  Get Hard Assets, add physical survival preparations like water, food, and shelter that you can't be evicted from due to non payment of rent or mortgage even if it means a travel trailer on a piece of junk land.  Own your vehicle no matter how old rather than make payments that you can no longer make.  Develop lots of friends in your community to network with in the event of such a disaster as a currency default.  The the thing to be sure of is to not be surprised if and when it happens. 

Collapse Update: Surviving Power Outages

Apocalyptic Power Outage 

You need a generator.  You need backup batteries.  You need fuel to run your generator and to fuel your heaters.  

Solar is an alternative but consider it just one layer of protection.  If it's your primary source of power then you have some protection. 

Batteries, Batteries, Batteries

Solar charging

Portable lights

Oil Lamps

Propane Heater

Gasoline or Propane Generator

Fuel to power all of these.

Grid Collapse: Britain 4 meals from Anarchy

Britain
This applies to almost all modern countries reliant on the grid without hardening against EMP and Cypber attacks.  Decentralization is the best answer.

How to Protect Yourself:  Decentralize your backup plan

Solar for low power applications such as lighting and radio

Lighting - candles, LED lights, batteries, lamp oil and oil lamps, solar yard  and string lights.

Heat - Fuel for heat - wood, oil, gas, coal,
earth berm design and associated  design systems.

Water - storage, hand powered well, nearby steam access, filtration

Weapons - Handguns, Shotguns, And Rifles for protection

If you live in Britain forget about self defense so you might luck out and just be finished off long before you starve or die of dehydration.

USA Collapse Update - The Donald Predicts One, Antibiotic Resistance

Trump Says Fed is Holding Down Rates to Protect El Presidente Until He Leaves Office
No surprise here.  They want to leave the next President holding the bag.

As part of the collapse scenario, we now have more dire warnings from the World Health Organization that antibiotic resistance has become dire worldwide.  Wonderful.

Forced importation of potential terrorists into Europe demanded by UN.  Of course the USA will bring in as many as possible to keep the ONE on path to degrade the quality of life and safety of US citizens. 

Syrian Refugees possible Trojan Horses.
This article points out what is obvious to anyone with a brain and a willingness to use it. 

Flood of Cuban refugees coming to USA. As if on cue, the planned invasion into the USA by future Democrat voters is ongoing in picking up speed.  As for the Republicrats, let us see how they assist in this venture while pretending to protest.

EMP Death Totals

In an article posted at World Net Daily there is a predication that 80-90% of Americans would eventually die as a result of the systemic collapse from an EMP event. Of course it's hard to accurately predict outcomes like this in the wake of the Y2K non-event, but if you look at our dependency on electronic devices that might be vulnerable to EMP energy then you would have to say that it makes sense to take some precautions. The easiest one is to drop a few little AM/FM radios into ammo cans or some other shielded box. You might want to further insulate that with mylar bags and bubble wrap before you put them in a metal container. If you want something other than simple communications then you might add a CB radio. They're cheap. You can find all this on Amazon.com. I see Sony portable radios for $10 and CB radios for $30. Beyond that, you might think about how you have all of your wealth stored. If it is just numbers in bank accounts then yes, you could lose it all, but who knows. So it makes sense to have currency on hand including coins, precious metals, and of course the other white metal known as lead in the form of ammunition. Rimfire .22 is a safe bet since you can always plink with it and it is cheap compared to centerfire handgun or rifle ammunition.

Food is still your number one priority when it comes to EMP concerns since the availability of food may disappear the moment all unshielded electronic devices are destroyed by the pulse. Also plan to have some non-electrical means of heating your food.

Lastly, get your tinfoil hat on to protect yourself from a brain erasure in a strong EMP attack. Just kidding, as far as I know we have no risk for that. Otherwise we couldn't get into an MRI.

Solar Events Pose a Serious Risk to Our Way of LIfe

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-solar-storms-20120505,0,6214500.story

For those of you that laugh at those who prepare for EMP attacks or solar storms that might destroy data or electrical equipment, here is a great article on the subject.  At a minimum I would try to put some protection in place for my electronic data by placing it in a Faraday cage.  Some have mentioned that a microwave oven could be useful as a storage location.  If you do that, make sure you unplug it.  I'm still now\t sure that would prevent a large electromagnetic pulse from somehow sending enough energy through to make the microwave dump some energy inside the box but it would be worth a try.  A better approach might be to use some type of grounded metal container. 

Here are some links for ways to build one.

http://preparednesspro.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/emp-101-part-iv-faraday-cage/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWjT0Bh_KZ8  How to build a Faraday Cage.
 
http://www.endtimesreport.com/faraday_cages.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_6618709_build-faraday-cage.html

This also proves that those who plan to sit out a grid collapse with oil lamps, firewood, propane, and some solar lighting might be ahead of the rest in terms of handling a solar storm.  We really don't know for sure how severely such an event could change our daily lives.