Mar 26

Are we there yet?

by CCCooper

“There” being the operative word. Are we at a point where our dollar no longer buys as much? Notice packaging lately? Same price for fewer products, right? Or, in the case of fuel prices, we seem to be on an upswing in pricing, also. What about the cost or availability of credit? While I and most preppers advocate getting out of debt as quickly as possible, many still rely on credit on a regular basis.

Has your lifestyle changed? For the better? Is it worse? Many folks are tightening their belts and discovering an often overlooked bonus. More time with their family. Some, however, are taking a second job to try to make ends meet. Many are working at their normal 9-5 (or 5-9) job then going home to work a while longer at the homestead.

Grocery prices are on the rise. Fuel costs are on the rise. Your pay check is flat. Have you noticed? Have you done anything or made any changes in your lifestyle to combat these changes?

Eat out less or not at all. Buy in bulk. Utilize coupons. Monitor your pantry. Peruse the sale ads. Stock up when prices are low(er). Have a garage/carport sale. Sell scrap. Offer handy-man (woman) services. Make the most of every day.

Plan your work and work your plan. Consider contingencies and “what ifs”. Do not hesitate to ask questions of those more knowledgeable. I still bend my grandfather’s ear on specifics of daily life in the old days.

Read up on old fashioned “technology”. Canning, preserving, smoking, tanning leather, vegetable gardens, herb gardens, common spices, water sources, wild edibles, outdoor cooking, basket making, pottery, and even bio-diesel production.

Expand your knowledge base. Use your imagination. Have fun on the journey.

Proud 3%er

He who is not prepared today is even less so tomorrow.

Aug 16

August 26-28, campout Fort Boonesborough

Campout:
August 26-28, campout Fort Boonesborough

Weekly Coffee Meetings:
Tuesdays:  Bowling Green
Wednesday:  Lexington
Thursdays:  East Louisville
Thursdays:  Florence area

KPN is a pretty busy place.  If you haven’t stopped in for a while I think
you’ll be surprised at how the forum has grown and the wealth of
information we’ve collected.

Details for all of the activities listed above are on the forum in the
Events & Meetups section at http://kentuckypreppersnetworkforum.com
 
See you in the forum!

Bunker

Jun 08

In the Beginning, …

From:
Getting Started http://gsiep.blogspot.com/

In the Beginning, …
Dear Preppers and Survivalists,
When did you wake up to the fragile nature of our complex society?
Was it urban riots like the one in Watts in 1964 or the one during the New York city blackout in 1977. How about the Miami riot in early 1980, another one again in Los Angeles in 1992, or was it the 2002 Cincinnati riot?
Was it a natural disaster such as a hurricane (Camille in 1962, Andrew in 1992, Katrina in 2005, the Schoolhouse Blizzard in 1888, the blizzard of 1978 and again in 2010, or the earthquakes 1811 in New Madrid, 1906 in San Francisco, or Northridge in 1994?
Was it a financial difficulty such as a financial depression, like the ones in 1857, 1929 and again in 1937, or maybe it was the recessions of ’73, the early ’80s, or the 90s?
Was it reading a book like Alas, Babylon in 1959, Warday in 1984 or One Second After in 2009 that put that nagging doubt in to your head?
Or is it a potential disaster that might be unfolding such as climate change, Peak Oil, the mass extinction of species, the massive volcano in Yellowstone, another New Madrid earthquake, or the collapse of the world’s financial system?
Or could it be some fringe scenario like the Rapture in 2011, Mayan calendar ending in 2012, Zombies, or an alien invasion?
Either way,
Welcome to prepping and survivalism.
Link:
Wikipedia – Urban Riots
Wikipedia – Hurricane Andrew
Wikipedia – Hurricane Katrina
The Post Chronicle – Biggest Hurricanes in History: The Top 14 Big, Bad Storms
Wikipedia – Schoolhouse Blizzard
Wikipedia – North American Blizzards of 2010
USGS – Largest Earthquakes in these United States
The Amateur Economist – America’s Great Depression: An Overview
Wikipedia – List of Recessions in these United States
Wikipedia – Alas, Babylon
Wikipedia – Warday
Wikipedia – One Second After

Mar 07

Kentucky Preppers Roll Call – All Preppers Please Check In.

The American Preppers Network is conducting a network-wide roll call.  Whether you are a member or not please check in and let us know what you are doing to prepare.

This is a good opportunity to network with other preppers near you.

Kentucky Preppers, to respond to the roll call please follow this link:
http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/viewtopic.php?f=711&t=9259

  • Reply to the Roll Call and let us know what you have been doing to prepare.

If you are not yet a member of the forum you can register here for free:
http://americanpreppersnetwork.net/ucp.php?mode=register

Feb 27

Rand Paul on FOX News 02/25/11

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Jan 19

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The World According to Monsanto – Full Documentary

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Jan 15

Rual King Sale

Here is a special emailed to me from Getting Started
 
Do You Live in IL, IN, KY, MI, MO, OH, or TN


.. then I have a deal for you.

Rural King has a sell on 5-gallon buckets. These buckets are the thicker .90 mil buckets, they are thicker and stronger then .75 mil buckets. The cost …

$1.99

Now, I don’t know if these are food-grade buckets, so caveat emptor.

Now, the bad news.

The sale ends Sunday; the buckets have a painted Rural King logo; and the $1.49 lids are flimsy.

Let me say this again.

The on sale lids are flimsy. If you plan to stack the buckets, you will need to buy a .75 or .90 mil lid.

Link:
Rural King – Store Locator

Rural King – Weekly Ad

P.S.
Just so you know, I just paid over six bucks for some buckets and two bucks for some lids from my local supplier.

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Dec 29

Pilot Exposes TSA Airport Security Flaws Loses CCW Permit

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Dec 27

Feds target airline pilot for exposing TSA security sham on YouTube

A Sacramento-based airline pilot is the subject of a federal investigation for exposing what he says are serious flaws in the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security protocols. According to ABC News10 in Sacramento, the 50-year-old pilot who requested to remain anonymous says that TSA applies its strict screening protocols to passengers and even flight crews, but ground crews are freely able to access secure areas with a simple card swipe.

“As you can see, airport security is kind of a farce,” the pilot explains in his video, as he shows an entrance to a secure area. “It’s only smoke and mirrors so you people believe there is actually something going on here.”

The pilot has worked for his airline for more than ten years and had been issued a federal handgun to carry with him in the cockpit. But after blowing the whistle on the serious security breaches taking place at the airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff’s deputies shows up at his house to confiscate the weapon, and they also asked him to give up his state-issued concealed weapon carry permit.

On December 6, the pilot also received a letter from the TSA explaining that “an administrative review into your deputation status as a Federal Flight Deck Officer has been initiated,” a move that he believes is a warning from the Feds saying not to mess with the system, unless you want to face the consequences.

According to the same ABC News10 report, the pilot’s airline asked him to remove the videos from YouTube shortly after he posted them, but portions of the videos captured as part of the ABC News10 report can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLG…

Monday, December 27, 2010 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030844_airline_pilot_TSA.html#ixzz19JiD3qDl

Sources for this story include:

http://www.news10.net/news/article….

Dec 27

Swine flu pandemic outbreak sweeping through Britain even though 70 percent were vaccinated last year

(NaturalNews) A swine flu pandemic is sweeping through Britain despite the fact that 70 percent of Britain’s over-65 population was vaccinated against swine flu last year. This year, that number is nearly the same — 68.5% — but flu vaccine proponents insist that until everyone is vaccinated, the flu will continue to infect people.

What these vaccine advocates absolutely will not admit, however, is how many of those who are sick with the flu this year also got vaccinated last year. This little detail is left out of every mainstream media report on vaccines and the flu. They simply refuse to mention this all-important number, leaving readers to leap to the incorrect conclusion that only those who were not vaccinated get sick with the flu.

Most infected patients were previously vaccinated

That assumption is false. In fact, of the 450 critical care beds in England that are now occupied by flu patients, I have no doubt that most of those infected patients are people who received flu vaccines in the past.

Such statistics are never made available to the public or the press, of course. To release such statistics would expose the Great Lie of the vaccine industry: That flu vaccines simply don’t work on 99 percent of people!

In fact, the people who are most susceptible to catching the flu are precisely the very same people who get vaccinated. Why is that? Because vaccines weaken the immune system in the long run, leaving you more vulnerable to future infections. They deny your immune system the opportunity to practice its own adaptive response to invading microorganisms or viruses, thereby causing your immune system to atrophy in the same way that a wheelchair-bound person will experience leg muscle atrophy.

The immune system is a lot like a muscle: Use it or lose it!

But flu vaccines provide weakened viruses to the immune system (along with other preservative chemicals that can be extremely dangerous to neurological health). It’s sort of like working out your muscles at the gym but having your trainer do all the heavy lifting for you. Obviously you’re not going to have very strong muscles in the end because your body won’t need to invoke a very strong adaptive response.

The same is true with vaccines and the flu: If your body is exposed to weakened flu viruses year after year, it gets lazy and weak, and when it one day comes into contact with a full-strength virus circulating in the wild, it’s not in good enough shape to handle the challenge.

Vitamin D deficiency is widespread in Britain

At the same time this is going on, a person who is vitamin D deficient will also have an alarmingly weak immune system response because vitamin D activates the immune system to do its job. In people with extremely low vitamin D levels, even vaccines containing weakened viruses won’t solicit an antibody response. But instead of testing patients for vitamin D deficiency and prescribing that with the vaccine, conventional medical doctors and contagious disease authorities robotically urge everyone to just “get multiple vaccine shots” as if following one failed vaccine with yet another failed vaccine will somehow make them both work.

That’s idiotic, of course. And the other idiotic thing about all this is that if people had sufficient levels of vitamin D circulating in their blood, they wouldn’t need seasonal flu vaccines in the first place! That’s because a strong, healthy immune system with lots of circulating vitamin D is universally effective at halting ALL seasonal flu strains, with near 100% success in those with vitamin D levels between 50 – 70 (ng/dL).

The three main reasons behind Britain’s flu pandemic

So the real reason Britain is suffering a swine flu pandemic right now is actually three-fold:

#1) It’s winter in the Northern Hemisphere, and Britain is so far north (of the equator) that the people living there aren’t currently generating any vitamin D whatsoever. This makes virtually the entire British population ridiculously vitamin D deficient throughout the winter.

#2) The majority of the British population has been subjected to flu vaccines in previous years, weakening their immune systems and making them more vulnerable to this year’s flu strains.

#3) The flu strain itself is so successful in the wild precisely because so many Britons walk around in chronic states of immune suppression (from vitamin D deficiency, chronic stress, poor dietary habits and so on). This creates a “viral breeding ground” which encourages more rapid virus mutations that make vaccines obsolete anyway.

The question you are not allowed to ask vaccine quacks

The vaccine-pushing quack medical community believes that if they could magically convince 100 percent of the people to get vaccinated, they would have this problem licked. In their own minds, they have unscientifically convinced themselves that a vaccine equals automatic and full protection against a flu virus.

And yet even they won’t dare ask this simple question: Of all the people sick from the flu who are right now lying in Britain’s hospital beds, what percentage were vaccinated against the flu last year or this year?

The answer to that question will expose the outright fraud of the vaccine industry because the answer is a very large number. No one in the medical industry dares ask that question, of course, because they realize that delving into the actual re-infection rate of flu vaccine recipients would expose their quackery and fraud, causing yet more people to lose faith in vaccines which are, after all, sold based entirely on misplaced faith and clever propaganda.

The flu vaccine propaganda, of course, demands that people never be allowed to collide with the scientific facts about how many people who are vaccinated against the flu still catch the flu anyway. (The flu re-infection rate.) That’s why you will NEVER see an honest answer to this question released by hospitals, vaccine companies or vaccine-pushing doctors.

Keep taking your flu jabs, everybody. But don’t ask whether they actually work, because that question isn’t allowed to be asked in the cult of medicine that dominates the sick-care landscape around the world today.

We wouldn’t want actual science to interfere with a really profitable con job now, would we?

Monday, December 27, 2010
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/030845_Britain_swine_flu.html#ixzz19JfOYEgc

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