Martenson: "Prediction-Things Will Unravel Faster than You Think"

Chris Martenson is a well-known economic researcher and futurist. Most know him as the creator of the video seminar, The Crash Course. (That is NOT Martenson in the image here.)

Read his article posted today at the "Business Insider."

Snippet:

By my analysis, we are not yet on the final path to recovery, and there are one or more financial 'breaks' coming in the future. Underlying structural weaknesses have not been resolved, and the kick-the-can-down-the-road plan is going to encounter a hard wall in the not-too-distant future. When the next moment of discontinuity finally arrives, events will unfold much more rapidly than most people expect.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-martenson-things-will-unravel-faster-than-you-think-2010-10#ixzz11JBBzdlZ
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Investment-Grade Food Storage Sale

Through September, we are running our final Mountain House cans sale of 2010.

That means:

• The maximum-allowed discount of 25% off all MH cans.
• It means free shipping.
• And it means buyers club members earn up to $1000 and more in free survival gear and supplies with qualifying purchases.

Mountain House freeze dried food is the clear #1 storage food in the world. It boasts a proven shelf life of over 25 years in the #10 cans. It is the kind of food we are all used to eating and it is delicious. 25% off is BIG savings. Shipping is FREE.

This time around, club members have the potential of not only securing the best fresh storage food in the world at the maximum allowed discount pricing, but they also can earn over $1000 in free gear and supplies with qualifying purchases.

This is investment-grade food. You lock-in today's food prices for as long as you hold the food. It will be there for you whenever you need it, and chances are very strong that it will be worth a lot more then than what you paid for it originally.

Check out all the details here.
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Military Study Warns of Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis

How about an unusually candid (OK--actually it was leaked) look at official Western views of "Peak Oil" and how all we know could become unraveled in just a few years due to oil shortages?

This is a Der Spiegel summary-analysis of a German military study draft. Be sure to read both pages at this link, as the second page is where the expectations of a global chain reaction are laid out.
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Never Forget

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What Are We Most Afraid Of?

I've seen this question pop up once or twice in preparedness-focused discussion forums. I don't believe I've seen the most bald-faced truth in reply though.

The world is widely recognized to be in a progressive state of relentless ruination today, not in any small part due to ongoing political and corporate manipulation. Few could argue that point today (at least without holding tongue firmly in cheek), though causes are still, I suppose, for some open to debate.

Regardless, when it comes right down to it, the worst possible eventuality is that nothing happens to jolt the train from its tracks and to ultimately reverse course and get us back to a world where common sense is king.

This is what keeps many of us awake at night.
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Economists from Across Spectrum Now Calling it Great Depression II

The time for quibbling over semantics and political gamesmanship appears to have passed. Now many of the biggest names in economics (Laffer, Krugman, Griffiths) are calling it as they see it--the Second Great Depression.

We're in this for the long haul, folks. Can't even hope for much positive change in the forseeable future at this point. Read the article linked and excerpted below. Then if you have the wherewithal to get yourself fully squared away for the worst case you can imagine economically--do it and move quickly.

The collapse is only months away they are saying ...

"Top Economists: The Second Great Depression Has Arrived"

by Terrence Aym

... (Fred) Harrison concurs and believes that the situation has become so serious that whole nations could fail and something unseen in the West for hundreds of years could appear again: wholesale starvation of peoples in some Western countries.

Back in 2008, Spectator Business reported that "Harrison's predictions earned him the epithet 'Prophet of Doom' until his forecasts proved correct. He is now described as 'the canary in the housing mine…(his) prediction is chilling: Nostradamus...could scarcely have been more accurate."
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Blurring the Lines of Common Identity

Just some quick stream of consciousness comments today ...

Think about all the crap that has taken us to where we are today. The last 20 years or so (I know--it can go back farther than that), some very significant transitions have been taking place that are rapidly at this point taking the world into a new era.

If you had to boil it all down to one idea behind all the changes, it would be that all the dividing lines and borders and stratifying layers that both divide and unify people historically are being dissolved away.

Geographic borders, economic classes, national identities, and many other groups that self identify according to religious affiliation, ethnic background, sexual orientation, etc.--these are the targets for destruction for those moving the world in a direction that apparently ends with that dreaded one-world governance (of course managed and maintained by a core group of enlightened, privileged individuals).

The old truism "divide and conquer" has been updated to the more sophisticated "homogenize and pacify."

There's still work to be done in these last stages of the effort whereby finally some push-back is being encountered from some groups who are reluctant to go quietly into the night. Of course, that would be expected and there are options for taking care of those who can't come to terms with things "as they must now be."

I've never been a one-world-government alarmist. At least not in a vocal sense. But there's no denying what we have before us now.

Seems the choice left us is to melt and blend or to exert and exit the stew pot while we still have meat on our bones.
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September is National Preparedness Month

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Cultural Marxism Defeats the USA

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More on EMP, CME Dangers

U.S. Warned of threat worse than Katrina, plague, WWII
Millions could die: 'This is clearly not something you ever want to experience'
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Agenda: Grinding America Down

AGENDA: Grinding America Down (Trailer) from Copybook Heading Productions LLC on Vimeo.

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Japan: America's Lost Decade

NIA's latest wake-me-up ...


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Economy Heading for a Systemic Collapse into Hyperinflationary Great Depression

The Market Oracle posted an absolute MUST READ yesterday--an interview with Shadowstats Economist John Williams. See the entire piece here.

Excerpt:

TER: How do we get through this, John?

JW: If there's no solution for the system—and I don't see one; I think it just has to run its course—there still is good news. We as individuals have ways of protecting ourselves, our families, our friends, our businesses—whatever is important to us. To do that we have to preserve the value of our wealth and assets in order to ride out the storm. As terrible as it will be, it will end. A time will come when things become self-righting and the people who have been able to survive will be able to do some extraordinary things.

TER: And what do you advocate in terms of individuals preserving wealth and assets?

JW: Hold some gold, silver, precious metals. I'm talking physical possession. Preferably coins because coins, sovereign coins, are recognized as such. They don't have liquidity issues. Having some assets outside the U.S., and certainly some assets outside the U.S. dollar, is a good thing. I like the Australian dollar, the Canadian dollar, the Swiss franc in particular. They won't suffer the same hyperinflation in Australia, Canada and Switzerland as we do in the U.S., so those currencies will tend to act as ways of preserving wealth. Over time real estate is a traditional store of wealth, but it's not portable and sometimes it's not liquid.

If I'm right about what's going to unfold, a significant shift in government is possible; suppose the government moved so far to the left where maybe private ownership of property was not allowed. Having a lot of assets in real estate under those circumstances might not be so good. I think generally real estate is a good bet but you also have to consider the risks. Use common sense. Think through different things that could happen.

Most importantly, build up a store of supplies, more than you would normally consume over a couple of months, particularly food and water, canned goods. Having those goods can save your life in a number of ways. You'd have food to eat, and if you have extra you can use it to barter. I met a guy who'd been through hyperinflation and found for purposes of the barter system those airline-size bottles of high-quality scotch proved quite valuable. Buy things that you would otherwise consume and rotate your inventory. Don't go out buying all sorts of things you'll never use. Keep what makes sense to you and your circumstances. Make sure you have things that are stable. Not too perishable.
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Most excellent new fallout shelter slide show!

Oh yeah! Check it (with speakers on): www.safecastle.com
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Surviving a Power Grid Crash

America's power supply is primed for an end-of-days blackout--particularly from geomagnetic storms. This evening, earth is expected to be struck broadside by two waves of solar plasma that exploded off the surface of the sun directly toward us a couple of days ago.

It may be that all we'll get is a beautiful northern-latitude light show out of the deal. But experts are concerned that this may signal the beginning of a cyclical solar period of storms, one of which could end up frying major parts of our overtaxed, interconnected electrical grid.

Last year, National Geographic Adventure ran a great series of articles on how to survive almost anything. One such scenario they looked at was grid system failure.

Have a look. It features comments by our friend Cody Lundin ...

http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/2009/08/survival/power-grid/1
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The Warrior Song - Original Version

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Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution? - IBD - Investors.com

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution? - IBD - Investors.com
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"Feel the Future" Storage Food Discounts & Freebies - thru August

We are feeling the future here and it is not giving us any warm fuzzies. In fact, things are not looking promising at all for economic recovery or an improving employment situation. Some widely-respected voices around the globe are now warning of the risk of sudden collapse. At Safecastle too, we see reason for concern on a number of levels--not only economic. We have never before "raised our alert level" like this. Hopefully, the imminent danger will fizzle out and more time will be ours to continue to firm up our perimeter a bit more. If we are wrong about raising the flag--well then, praise God!

At Times Like This

As always--preparedness is about being ready for whatever is coming. We're doing our utmost right now to help you make sure you and yours are squared away. We have quickly put together some discounts and incentive packages that are the very best we can offer at this point.

Yes, discounts PLUS freebies!

For details, see: Feel the Future

Current Offers:

(These apply in the U.S., other than the specific Canadian offers in #5 below.)

1. The mega-comprehensive Get It Done food package. 84 cases of food. 20% discount, free shipping for members and non-members alike. Members get a free 9-tray Excalibur Dehydrator (value $275) and a can of Grandmas Country non-hybrid emergency storage seeds (value $50.00) as well. (You will also get all of the gifts listed in #3 below.) Save $2250 on the food alone!

2. We are offering a rare discount on all Mountain House pouches in our store. Non-club-members get 5% off and free shipping. Members get their additional 20% discount on top of that. Pouch case purchases do not qualify for the volume incentive gifts in #4 below.

3. Use your club-member 20% discount and purchase 28 full cases or more in any combination of Future Essentials, Yoders, and Grandma Werlings products (excludes half cases and sampler packs) -- THEN receive a Safecastle gift certificate for $300 to use on any subsequent transaction in our store (plus your qualifying gifts below in #4). Need we keep saying it?--Free shipping.

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4. Now through August 2010, we are offering volume incentive gifts for buyers club members who purchase any type of listed storage foods in cans. Yes--normal buyers club discounts apply. As always, MH cans are not eligible for member discounts due to manufacturer dealer rules. However those MH can purchases do certainly count toward the incentive levels below. (Note--Purchases are not cumulative. These gifts are awarded and based on single transactions, unless otherwise arranged with Safecastle beforehand.)

Any buyers club member canned-food purchase (includes Mountain House cans, Yoders, Future Essentials, Werlings, Honeyville Grains, Grandmas Country milk, and Bega cheese) totaling at least ...

$500+ earns a free Fenix Flashlight while supplies last. Earliest qualifying purchases get the best available models. (Comparable gifts will be substituted and listed here when necessary.)

$1500+ earns a Fenix flashlight and a QuikClot pouch plus an "Adventure Medical" Pocket Survival kit or Medical kit worth at least $37 and as much as $110.

$2500+ gets the items listed above PLUS a Katadyn water filter or filter bottle valued between $56 and $110 and a can of emergency storage vegetable seeds from Grandma's Country (value $50).

$3500+ earns all of the above plus a Safecastle gift certificate in the amount of $175.00.


Eligible purchases that count toward these gifts include:

Mountain House freeze dried #10 can cases (6 cans per case):
Rice & Chicken
Spaghetti
Chicken ala King
Hearty Stew w/ Beef
Vegetable Stew with Beef
Beef Stroganoff

Chili Mac
Lasagna w/ Meat Sauce
Noodles and Chicken
Long Grain & Wild Rice
Sweet & Sour Pork w/ Rice
Breakfast Skillet
Pasta Primavera
Oriental Style Spicy Chicken
BBQ Beef
Chicken Teriyaki

Seafood Chowder
Chicken Stew
Mac and Cheese

Diced Chicken, cooked

Diced Beef, cooked

Ground Beef, cooked

Creamed Beef
Precooked Scrambled Eggs w/ Ham
Precooked Eggs w/ Bacon
Granola w/ Blueberries & Milk

Garden Green Peas
Green Beans
Instant White Rice

Corn

Pilot Crackers

Cottage Cheese

Blueberry Cheesecake

Raspberry Crumble

Sliced Strawberries

Sliced Bananas

Honeyville Grains #10 Can Cases

Freeze Dried Vegetable Combo

Powdered Whole Eggs
Flavored TVP Combo
Mountain Mills Instant Milk Substitute

Grandma's Country #10 Can Cases

Powdered 100% Real Milk

Powdered 100% Real Chocolate Milk

Yoders Canned Product Cases

All-Purpose White Flour

Bacon

Canned Beef

Canned Hot Dogs

Granulated Brown Sugar

Hamburger/ Ground Beef

Canned Chicken

Canned Pork

Canned Turkey

Long Grain Brown Rice

Long Grain White Rice

Pork Sausage

Taco Beef Filling

Whole Wheat Flour

Grandma Werling's Canned Meats

BBQ Pork

Beef & Gravy

Future Essentials Can Cases

Assorted Spices

Iodized Salt

Green Coffee Beans

Breakfast Grains/ Cereals

Canned Cookie, Cake, Scone, Muffin Varieties

Great Northern Beans, Dried

Hard White Wheat

Spring Wheat

Pinto Beans, Dried

Small Red Beans

White Corn Grits

Yellow Corn Meal

And ...

Bega Canned Cheese

5. Canadian Customers--Our listings for foods available north of the border are limited to certain Mountain House cans cases and pouch cases that are in a distributor's warehouse in Ontario as we speak. We are discounting all MH cans in Canada 5% and all pouch cases 20%! Yes--you too get free shipping.

Plus--if your purchase exceeds $2400, we will ship you a free 5-tray Excalibur Dehydrator (value $237.50).
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Shaking the Paralysis in America - Get the Lead Out!

The recent repetitive waves and tidal surges of bad news that we've all had to deal with have left us numb. Detachment is an innate defense mechanism that kicks in when our senses are overwhelmed with negative input, pain stimuli, and/or fear triggers.

You know of what I speak--terrorism, international tensions, natural disasters, man-made disasters (ala the oil spill in the Gulf), economic depression, personal financial uncertainties, racial hostilities, crime, governmental encroachment in personal lives and liberties, corporate greed ...

I'm sure you can add a few more fear factors to personalize this list to your own situation. The result for many has been a kind of debilitating shock.

That's fine, for a while. But eventually it's not OK anymore.

My point is, sometimes you just have to make the effort to get back in the ballgame. If you sit for too long, you become irrelevant. Your life and your future become pointless.

It's a fair comparison to look at those who are unemployed long enough ... they become discouraged, stop seeking work, and the government even stops counting them in the primary U.S. unemployment statistics, since the "numb" become so irrelevant. The overriding, unconcerned attitude of officialdom is, "If they stop caring about themselves, why should we?" They consider those detached folks to be out-of-sight, harmless, and non-involved. In other words--no threat to the agendas of the moment.

Are You Ready Yet to React?

Think about how you felt a while back--maybe it was years ago now--when you knew times like this were coming. Perhaps that prescience is what got you involved in crisis preparedness in the first place. You worked and invested yourself in getting ready--in becoming informed on many levels, in preparing your loved ones for the days when everything would change, in positioning your household to weather the storms.

Well, here we are. It's the change we believed would come. It is in process.

Yes, the shock of an incessant, intense rolling series of "disturbances in our force" put many of us on the sidelines for a while. In a way, it's like we couldn't believe our eyes and ears that this is all happening so fast.

But now it's time to get re-engaged. We're at the stage where preparedness is less of an objective, since we are presumably as ready as we can be in that way. It now has to be about awareness, analysis, and activism ... steeling ourselves for the struggle ... re-energizing ourselves as the changes still to come will undoubtedly be coming at us at an accelerating pace.

Stay safe. Be strong.
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The "Get It Done" Comprehensive Food Package is On Sale!

If you're just now coming to realize that the sun is setting on your chance to prepare for the dark days ahead, well--we have your solution.

Safecastle's "Get It Done" Comprehensive Emergency Storage Food Package is sale priced to get you value and quick peace of mind--increasingly elusive these days. The 84-case food package is made up of the very best storage-food varieties on the market--top quality, fresh from the suppliers, longest shelf lives, the kinds of food Americans are used to eating.

The package is discounted $2250 and it ships free to the lower 48!!

1.2M Calories

What's it really worth to you? Well, this package provides a total of 1.2 million calories. That's 1,200,000 calories! At the level of 2000 calories a day, that translates to 600 days for one adult.

84 different full case food varieties, to include the best freeze dried entrees, wet-pack meats, salt, spices, coffee beans, comfort foods, and more. The top food brands in the marketplace. Everything a body needs to survive and thrive. Canned and packaged to last for years ... decades in fact.

Buyers club members also get a free Excalibur food dehydrator and a can of emergency non-hybrid veggie seeds as a part of the package price.

In times like this, it's critical we put our available funds into assets that will at the very least retain some inherent value. Is there anything that better fills that description than high-quality storage food?
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