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Post by krull68 on Apr 5, 2016 22:30:10 GMT 10
A prepper must plan quickly, quietly, carefully. Then remaining calm, must work their budget out so they can do the most with what they have. The tortoise always wins the race.
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Post by krull68 on Apr 3, 2016 21:47:59 GMT 10
...they say basil repels bugs when sown around tomatoes, so we will see. Any word on this? All the literature says to plant strong fragrance plants. Apparently you need 3 Basil per Tomato plant. We have basil near our cherry tomato plants and so far so good. In the area where we had no basil, lost the lot. We are currently working on which plants give the best outcome. Will have updates next summer.
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Post by krull68 on Mar 28, 2016 20:40:40 GMT 10
Listened to it and read the translation a few days ago. Finally, someone gets it. Wahhabi Sunni islam has declared war on the world. It is time to accept that and give them an ultimatum. Peace or Hiroshima.
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Post by krull68 on Mar 23, 2016 19:08:21 GMT 10
I know on OzPrep, before this site I believe, Pete (owner/admin) did some media about prepping! I'll blame the editing, but it made him out to be a nutcase, and I think the media treated it/him as a joke. (This was my take on it, and if wrong, apologies to all concerned). Regardless, lets look at Doomsday Preppers, the tv show - seriously - how many people are made out to be 'normal' I bet editing has a lot to do with what they portray. But, on the flip side, 'normal' isn't newsworthy, so why do a show about normal preppers - let's make them out to be nut cases, and get more views!!!! I'd trust the media like I would trust a junkie with my life's savings!!!!! (Not that they'd have much to look after!!) Exactly the reason we wouldn't let the lame stream media within cooee of the show.
As I suggested, to a youtube series, only people allowed to be involved would be sensible preppers. front and back of house.
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Post by krull68 on Mar 21, 2016 19:09:13 GMT 10
Yes all the software is free AFAIK, maybe not the best but OK. I would not touch this with a barge pole if done by a network, but love the idea of a simple Youtube channel but it would need a few people with the right production skills. There are heaps of them around though, dunno what would make this one better. I personally would drop all the Rambo garbage you see on the standard preppers shows. Instead I would go into: Ok, so you want to prep, a simple 10 step plan to get started. What do you put into a simple to complex bug out/in bag. Ok it has all collapsed, do you bug in or bug out, decide early, plan quickly. So the whole world has broken, so, how are you planning on surviving and thriving short/medium/long term.
So gang, who has an idea for an episode. To get going properly, 10-12 episodes would be needed. 1 X 30 minute episode would be able to cover 3 subjects, with a 3 x 30 second ads for specific prepper company. Theme, script, presenter/s (men and women). Unidentified/ unidentifiable location for outdoor shoots, IE: location to do generic prepping how to activities (light fire without matches), simple first aid, how to make home made cleaners etc.
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Post by krull68 on Mar 21, 2016 9:50:06 GMT 10
Ok, get a couple of people with decent video cameras. Set up a you tube preppers account. Film on site, with no descriptor of location, or state, unless it is specific for that particular area.
Find someone with sensible editing ability, I understand you can get for free, video editing software. get a green screen for non location required activities, this can be done in a garage. Again the software is available for free to create a backdrop. Then make sure people have access to a transcript, and items list after the program.
Thus is my technical take on the subject.
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Post by krull68 on Mar 1, 2016 22:00:53 GMT 10
The wife and I have been looking at this situation, because there is so much that can go wrong, so we are working on: 7 years max. Completely off grid, fuels out of stock. So we are working on: complete 1700's far outback living. 7 years of firewood. wood fire for cooking, water heating. seeds for rotation planting, 15 years worth. Friends with meat animals. Keeping a very low profile.
We won't live in mansions and eat like kings, but we won't be starving peasants either.
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Post by krull68 on Feb 2, 2016 22:03:45 GMT 10
Which just proves that a good network is one of the most important preps to have. Well done Most definitely. Sometimes the greatest motivator is being able to talk to fellow travellers and get ideas.
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Post by krull68 on Feb 2, 2016 0:13:15 GMT 10
Well done FB. I am lucky, the wife and I are on the same page prep wise. This year, as soon as my friend gets his firearms instructors licence, we are both getting our licences. We have been extremely fortunate to locate cheap manures, cow, horse, fowl. some of them are actually free, just have to go collect it. We have not purchased veggies in almost 12 months now. Our next door neighbour is our bee specialist, and we can get cheap honey and wholesale bees wax for candle making this year. My electrician friend is going to hard wire our power box up to run off a gen set if the power goes out medium to long term.
Things have actually sped up in the last few months in our church prep wise. It is about the only topic of conversation since about August last year.
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Post by krull68 on Jan 17, 2016 18:58:05 GMT 10
Did you see that Home show yesterday frostbite where they converted a 40' container into a bachelor pad on a rural block? The guy was living in a teepee and he had this Great Dane that had its own tent as well!! Great location with water frontage but homes across the river. I didnt hear where it was located. I only caught glimpses and taped it but missed the bit where I THINK they said that by propping it up on these U shaped concrete corners it made it portable and hence moveable and did not need Council permission to live in it. They installed a toilet that was compositing and he had tanks anyway for water. They did hook him up to power but I'm presuming it was via solar., But maybe the block (acreage) had power pulled thru. Good ideas with a good sized deck and a fire pit like a cauldron (Bunnings) set away from the home was a great idea. All up it cost $45,000 to fit out and the container was new and cost $6,000. Love to find out about those U thingy's because if you didn't need Council approval that saves such a lot of grief. I believe that might have been a repeat from an earlier episode of better homes and gardens, going by your description.
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Post by krull68 on Jan 17, 2016 7:51:22 GMT 10
www.dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/01/11/shipping-said-to-have-ceased-is-the-worldwide-economy-grinding-to-a-halt.html Sinking Economic Ship - The Dollar Vigilante Share this article on:
Shipping Said to Have Ceased… Is the Worldwide Economy Grinding to a Halt?
January 11, 2016 / Jeff Berwick / 86 Comments
Last week, I received news from a contact who is friends with one of the biggest billionaire shipping families in the world. He told me they had no ships at sea right now, because operating them meant running at a loss.
This weekend, reports are circulating saying much the same thing: The North Atlantic has little or no cargo ships traveling in its waters. Instead, they are anchored. Unmoving. Empty.
You can see one such report here. According to it,
Commerce between Europe and North America has literally come to a halt. For the first time in known history, not one cargo ship is in-transit in the North Atlantic between Europe and North America. All of them (hundreds) are either anchored offshore or in-port. NOTHING is moving.
This has never happened before. It is a horrific economic sign; proof that commerce is literally stopped.
We checked VesselFinder.com and it appears to show no ships in transit anywhere in the world. We aren’t experts on shipping, however, so if you have a better site or source to track this apparent phenomenon, please let us know.
Vessel Finder - The Dollar Vigilante
We also checked MarineTraffic.com, and it seemed to show the same thing. Not a ship in transit…
Marine Traffic - The Dollar Vigilante
If true, this would be catastrophic for world trade. Even if it’s not true, shipping is still nearly dead in the water according to other indices. The Baltic Dry Index, an assessment of the price of moving major raw materials by sea, was already at record all-time lows a month ago.
BDI 5 year chart - The Dollar Vigilante
In the last month it has dropped even more, especially in the last week.
BDI 1 month chart - The Dollar Vigilante
Factories aren’t buying and retailers aren’t stocking. The ratio of inventory to sales in the US is an indicator of this. The last time that ratio was this high was during the “great recession” in 2008.
Inventories to Sales ratio - The Dollar Vigilante
Hey, Ms. Yellen, what recovery? The economy is taking on water at a rapid rate.
The storm has been building for some time, actually. Not so long ago, there was a spate of reports that the world’s automobile manufacturers were in trouble because cars were not selling and shipments were backing up around the world.
ZeroHedge reported on it this way:
In the past several years, one of the topics covered in detail on these pages has been the surge in such gimmicks designed to disguise lack of demand and end customer sales, used extensively by US automotive manufacturers, better known as “channel stuffing”, of which General Motors is particularly guilty and whose inventory at dealer lots just hit a new record high.
Here is a photo of unsold cars in the United Kingdom from that article.
Unsold Cars in UK - The Dollar Vigilante
The world’s economy seems in serious trouble. You can’t print your way to prosperity. All you are doing is hollowing out your economy. Draining it. And sooner or later it’s empty and you have to start over after a good deal of crisis and chaos.
It’s no coincidence that China is struggling desperately to contain a stock implosion. Reportedly, banks have been told they are forbidden to buy US dollars and numerous Chinese billionaires have gone missing. And the markets have just opened on Monday and are again deeply in the red.
Here at The Dollar Vigilante we’ve specialized in explaining the reality of the global faux-economy and why it’s important that you not believe mainstream media lies.
Every month we publish at least two editions of our TDV newsletter that, as our subscribers are aware, has predicted much of what is going on today. If you’re not a subscriber, you ought to take advantage of our current low rates before they go up on February 1. You can subscribe here.
And set aside time for our one-day TDV Internationalization & Investment Summit that features some of the most insightful financial minds on the planet including Ed Bugos our extraordinary, in-house gold analyst and Austrian economist. I’ll be there as well as a presenter and also to answer your questions about our upcoming Super Shemitah Trends and Jubilee Year analysis.
We’ve gained literally thousands of subscribers because of the accuracy of our forecasting and investment recommendations over the past year. Now is your chance – perhaps a final one – to get out in front of the chaos racing toward us by attending our one-day Investment Summit, followed by the three-day Anarchapulco Conference.
I guarantee you’ll come away refreshed, invigorated and armed with insights to help you cope with what’s going to be a very volatile and challenging 2016.
In the meantime, keep your eye on this shipping story! If it is true and worldwide shipping is disastrously foundering, it’ll only be a matter of days before grocery store shelves will reflect that with increasingly bare shelves.
Are people upset now? Just wait. Interruptions in goods and services, most critically food, almost happened in 2008 during the Great Financial Crisis. For three days worldwide shipping was stranded due to shipping companies not knowing whether or not the receiver’s bank credit was good.
That crisis was staved off due to a massive amount of money printing. It was a temporary stay of execution, like bailing out the Titanic with coffee cups, however, and one that may reach much larger proportions in 2016.
Sailors watch the weather to see if it is safe to set sail. Investors should be watching the economic climate with the same intensity.
We are already sailing through very stormy waters.
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Post by krull68 on Dec 21, 2015 23:39:11 GMT 10
Politically correct Christmas story.
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Post by krull68 on Dec 21, 2015 23:34:16 GMT 10
HOHOHO (or to be politically correct, lady of the night, lady of the night, lady of the night) HAHAHA HEHEHE ROTFLMAO.
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Post by krull68 on Dec 4, 2015 23:42:50 GMT 10
A bigshot business man had to spend a couple of days in the hospital. He was a royal pain to the nurses because he bossed them around just like he did his employees. None of the hospital staff wanted to have anything to do with him. The head nurse was the only one who could stand up to him. She came into his room and announced, "I have to take your temperature." After complaining for several minutes, he finally settled down, crossed his arms and opened his mouth. "No, I'm sorry," the nurse stated, "but for this reading, I can't use an oral thermometer." This started another round of complaining, but eventually he rolled over and bared his behind. After feeling the nurse insert the thermometer, he heard her announce, "I have to get something. Now you stay JUST LIKE THAT until I get back!" She left the door to his room open on her way out. He curses under his breath as he hears people walking past his door, laughing. After a half hour, the man's doctor comes into the room. "What's going on here?" asked the doctor. Angrily, the man answers, "What's the matter, Doc? Haven't you ever seen someone having their temperature taken?" After a pause, the doctor confesses, "Not with a carnation." My wife, a former nurse, thinks that is the absolute best joke since forever.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 21, 2015 1:01:30 GMT 10
Brought tears of laughter to the eyes.
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Post by krull68 on Nov 3, 2015 19:00:27 GMT 10
As an ex soldier who was seriously injured, thus am permanently disabled, with limited physical abilities such as endurance, walking distance ex I have worked out mechanical aides to help me compensate. I keep all my essentials in the Shed (dirty great big faraday cage). Instead of a normal wheel barrow, I have a four wheeled wheelbarrow. we also have a four wheeled cart. Instead of the normal equipment, I have extension handles on everything. Instead of having push mower, I have a ride on and a self propelled mower, both large decks. Instead of hand digging my veggie patch, I have a self propelled tilling machine. I also have a really tight group of friends who are prepared to give me a hand with any of my more difficult tasks.
But to give you better advice that the above generic, it would require specific situations.
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Post by krull68 on Oct 28, 2015 21:10:11 GMT 10
Jay, can you suggest where I can buy a pack of such dogs? About three dozen should do the trick... Do a search for huskies. They are beautiful dogs, my next door neighbours huskies use to escape to come spend time with me LOL.
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Post by krull68 on Oct 20, 2015 20:21:38 GMT 10
Ah, the mog, I loved the mog. If you got the military one, they had a nice lever that you could flick and go from forward to reverse instantly.
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Post by krull68 on Sept 28, 2015 20:21:17 GMT 10
Been there, drove them. 1/ they are notoriously unreliable, they need a crap load of parts. 2/ They are damn fun to drive, 70km/h over trenches and rough ground, hardly feeling a bump, is awesome.
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Post by krull68 on Aug 11, 2015 22:47:38 GMT 10
The selfie stick, my wife and I completely cracked up, especially the last one.
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