Rollover – 1981 Movie Predicts Financial Terror Attack and Dollar Collapse

This 1981 political/financial thriller involves a plot by Arab countries to collapse the American economy. Because commie Jane Fonda is involved there’s plenty of Marxist hooey in here, but the scenes of the economic collapse are eerily similar to both the 2008 crisis and what most people are saying is coming this year.

Given the new book by Kevin Freeman that proves the 2008 collapse was just stage one in a three stage financial terror attack this movie proves that in some cases life imitates art:

Michael Manna’s Core Workout

Like many survivalists I’ve been (trying) to keep healthy and maintain a level of physical fitness that will help keep me going when needed. Unfortunately I’m a 40-year-old man with 40-year-old man knees who learned to workout in martial arts classes. The days of 20 front kicks in a row are over – as are my long distance hikes. Long story short I’m always looking for good workouts, especially ones that hit the areas i neglect, and this workout by Michael Manna (aka Dancin’ Stevie Richards) of the T4 Show demonstrates his core workout. It requires some equipment but your health is one of your best investments:


 

Residential Shelter in Place Information Film

The person that posted this old civil defense video to YouTube lists it as coming from F.E.M.A . in 2002 but looks like a mid 90s production judging by the actors clothing and level of technology.  No doubt it was recycled by the government later since much of the information is still fairly valid. The hardcore survivalist my laugh at the pitiful preps of the actors, but for the general public this is information that could save lives in the event of chemical or biological incidents or pandemics.

Huge Snowstorm, Frigid Temperatures this Week

According to Accuweather anyway. About 1/3 of the country will be getting snow and ice so make sure you’re well stocked:

The storm will be a “two-parter.” The first part will roll southeastward along the Front Range of the Rockies this weekend, spreading accumulating snow over the I-25 corridor in the northern and central Rockies.

The storm is entering British Columbia, Canada now and will spread low-elevation rain and mountain snow into part of the Northwest later Friday into Saturday. The ground could be whitened around Seattle Saturday night.

A swath of moderate to heavy snow will stretch from western and central Montana to central and eastern Colorado. If you have flights in or out of Denver Sunday, expect delays with several inches of snow possible.

A bit of slippery snow will also spill west of the Divide into Salt Lake City and Boise.

Essentially, for the Plains, the zone from the I-40 to I-70 corridors appears to be in the thick of this one. Snow will spread over part of the southern and central Plains Sunday into Monday. Amarillo, Pueblo, Wichita, Kansas City and perhaps Oklahoma City could all be impacted.

As the storm rolls eastward, it will undergo changes with a transfer of energy likely toward a new storm forming near the Gulf Coast. We have seen it before during this season.

Since the cold will be so deeply entrenched in the South and moisture will be carried eastward from the Rockies, snow and ice will likely fall over the interior South, while snow still falls as far north as the Ohio Valley during the Sunday-Monday period.

Problems with ice or a wintry mix may extend as far south as the I-20 corridor, especially in Alabama and Georgia. At the same time, accumulating snow will still reach into St. Louis and Cincinnati, while Nashville and at least the suburbs around Atlanta could be in for a nasty wintry mix, or even an ice storm.

The risk of an ice storm would become more prevalent over upstate South Carolina and northern and western North Carolina Sunday night and Monday, including Charlotte, Winston-Salem and perhaps Richmond.

The same storm will bring drenching, needed rain to the Deep South, according to AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Heather Buchman.

From here it is all about the southern storm taking over as the dominant feature, possibly spreading a swath of heavy snow into the I-95 Northeast, with a wintry mix in southern Virginia, Delmarva and perhaps South Jersey.

If behaving as some of our forecast tools suggest at this point, the storm would be sizable enough to throw significant snow over the northern and western suburbs from Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia to New York City and Boston.

The snowstorm would hit the mid-Atlantic on Tuesday, then New England late Tuesday into early Wednesday.

Here’s a video report.

Time to Start Thinking About Alternative Transportation

Fuel prices is going to be a big story this year, as the video below explains. I’ve been a long time putterer, preferring to walk places because though time consuming I really enjoy it but I have wrecked my knees with 20+ years of 10 mile hikes on hard city sidewalks. In the cold weather I ache like an old man so I’m thinking about a bike of some type for grocery trips.

There’s a lot of electric scooters and mopeds on the market. I found two pretty decent ones on Amazon for under $2,000. Extreme scooters’ XB-502 and XB-600 are very cheap stop gaps that can get you to the grocery and back – if you don’t have to shop for a large family. They are $799.00 and $875 respectively and I heard you can get a quite a few years out of them. Of course you get what you pay for but these babies can be shipped to your door now.

But if you live in areas where you’re only connected by highways you’re going to be boned. Sorry sub-division dwellers.

When I was in grad school I lived about a half-mile from the big grocery store and I just slapped on a backpack for my shopping trips. If you’re in walking distance it’s going to be more economical, and healthier, to make a couple of trips with a ruck than burn $5/gallon gas. And frankly I think the $5 target is best case scenario. I used a large camping backpack, which may look silly but who’ll be laughing when you have extra money in your pocket at the end of the week? But a good sized daypack, like the 5.11 3 Day Rush is probably suitable for most single peoples or couples needs. Again, large families need more supplies than you can hump unless one of you is unemployed and can spend their week shopping but some of you young people out there can certainly save gas by hoofing it.

This is, again, in my opinion conservative. I personally think that by 2012 $7.00 gas is a possibility: