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Coming to Terms with Government Control

Coming to Terms with Government Control

Today I speculate that recent events are part of a larger master plan for government control of its citizens. True or not, it is something to consider. Don’t let the issue of gun control distract you from the truth about our government’s actions and the push toward tyranny.

Wake Up to Our Bill of Rights

Wake Up to Our Bill of Rights

Today is Bill of Rights Day and yet the most basic of civil liberties are being denied or taken away. Wake up to our Bill of Rights before they are gone.

What is a Coronal Mass Ejection and Why Should You Care?

What is a Coronal Mass Ejection and Why Should You Care?

Three weeks ago if someone mentioned a CME was on its way I would have looked at them with a raised brow and a questioning look, not even pretending to understand. For the uninformed – as I was until a week ago – CME stands for Coronal Mass Ejection. In simplistic terms, this refers to large plasma ball full of charged geomagnetic particles that is emitted by the sun.

So why should we care?

Well for one, by the time you read this or shortly thereafter, a large strike will hit earth with the potential to disrupt our daily lives in an unpredictable manner. You see, from what I have discovered, scientists are now anticipating if not predicting a high-consequence, low-frequency event. Or, what, in layman’s terms, we call a 100 year storm.

NASA astronomers report that the sun is entering the most violent period of its normal 11-year cycle. This interval of high activity, called the solar maximum, is expected to peak in 2013. Will 2013 be the 100 year event? Who knows. What we do know is that in the meantime, we are starting to experience the precursor to the big event now and that scientists expect this latest solar burst to trigger one of the most violent geomagnetic storms ever recorded.

Getting Prepared Week 18: What if all is lost? Lessons learned from the recent tornadoes.

Getting Prepared Week 18: What if all is lost? Lessons learned from the recent tornadoes.

I am finally back home after a week long hiatus to the big city. Traffic, dirt, noise . . . yuk. Anyway, I am very thankful that I have my quiet little cottage here on San Juan island. Enough personal stuff; it is time to get back to the business of prepping.

The horrific storms sweeping through the southeast have not gone unnoticed from my place here in Washington State. As with the Japan quake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown (which, for some reason is no long newsworthy) the massive destruction to homes and the fabric of normal life are gut wrenching. I keep thinking about the folks who thought they were prepared: plenty of extra food, water, auxiliary power and cash to get by in the event of a crisis. They too lost everything.

So once I again I raise my hand and say “What happens if my home is swept away along with all of my precious preps?” Now that is one heck of question, especially since we personally (oops, here I go again with the personal stuff) have made so much progress this year in preparing our little homestead to be self-sufficient.

Below is a list of the lessons I have learned from this latest disaster in Alabama, Tennessee and other areas of the Southern United States.