Category Archives: Link Round Up

The TEOTWAWKI is Coming Down the Pike Link Round-Up

Posted on by

Poor employment numbers are dominating the headlines but there are plenty of other things to worry about that will bring a change to the way you live your life in the near future.

46 States are now facing “Greek style Deficits” In the next couple of years you will see massive cuts to the services they provide, and that will cause civil unrest to varying degrees.

Ben Bernake is panicking as the “recovery” he expected is running out of steam. He will likely start printing more money, so hyper-inflation is back on the table.

City Journal has a must read article on the Municipal Bond Bubble.

Shenandoah sees the beginning of a second credit crisis.

France and China set to get hit hard on CDS market.

2010 earthquakes are occurring 133% more frequently than average.

The Arizona Militia (who went to the border to interdict cartels) is asking for assistance after being fired on. We now have two non-state actors fighting in the deserts of Arizona.

Hezbollah is converting Mexicans who are crossing the border to radical Islam.

Feel like we’re out of the woods?

Survival Resource Link Dump

Posted on by

Here’s a list of links that provide some useful skill building information. I suggest that if you find something you want to use you continue to research, and eventually practice the skills and theories here as much as you’re able:

Xavier’s Thoughts has a great piece on how to recognize threats.

Buckskinning/Trekking Woodsrunners Diary has had a great series on old time trail foods. His post on processing sunflower seeds is easy to understand and worth a read if you live in an area where they are found.

First Ways has a write up on Shepherd’s Purse, an edible plant often used in herbal remedies to reduce bleeding. It is a very common weed you’ll see almost everywhere.

Sunflower Ammo has a video on their blog of pond water being made safe for drinking first by filtering (through a regular coffee filter!) and then by boiling it on a alcohol stove made out of an old Pepsi can.

The Survivalist Blog has a list of the top ten mistakes made by the new survivalist.

Jenn Q. Public sent me these two links: How to Cut up a Rabbit and a recipe for Rabbit in Mustard.

This video on making fruit leathers is of a Liberal Democrat politician from England named Johnathan Wallace. Aside from self sufficiency Wallace also promotes the privatization of England’s postal service. Anyone else want to trade out liberal Democrats for England’s Lib Dems?

The “Christians Are the Real Terrorists” Even Though Muslims are Terrorizing the World Link Round Up

Posted on by

As Robert Spencer has pointed out the arrest of the Hutaree militia is basically a media wet dream. Of course, much of the evidence of the “danger” these kooks pose has to do with the fact one of them was planning on giving a fire speech calling for Christians to throw of the shackles of their perceived oppression by godless government.  They in fact were making a speech similar to ones Imam’s make at Friday night prayer service, usually before calling on Muslims to rampaging through the streets.

However, the Hutaree are the real threat. After all, they may have thought about committing a crime. Muslims actually committing atrocities is no big deal:

Muslim Chechen militias have claimed responsibility for the Moscow subway bombings.

25 little Hindu girls are abducted, raped and forced to convert to Islam every month in Pakistan.

Teen girl sold, raped then jailed in Afghanistan.

Muslims are still killing Buddhists in Thailand.

London based News Editor Abdul Bari Atwan claimed he’d “dance with delight” in Trafalgar Square if Iran nukes Israel.

Somali Muslim gangs granted asylum in the U.K. are turning the streets into a warzone.

A Muslim businessman drugged and raped a teen he procured from a business associate.

Saudi Arabia is about to put a popular Lebanese television fortune teller to death for Witchcraft.

Supposed “victim” of CIA rendition is going to jail for assaulting the mayor of a Bavarian city while on parole for arson and assault.

Wales is fighting an epidemic of Muslim forced marriages.

A new Fatwa by Islamic clerics declares that child brides are lawful, and that intercourse with pre-pubescent children is approved by the Koran.

An Australian Muslim leader has been caught praising Bin Laden and Hitler while promoting violent Jihad against the West.

Muslims in prison in America are suing because they claim that they aren’t given enough time to see friends.

Gay activists are being warned to leave Indonesia.

A Muslim TV station in the U.K. is being accused of promoting marital rape.

And then there’s this via The Center for Security Policy:

I’m sure glad the left knows who the “real enemy” is, aren’t you?

The TEOTWAWKI is Accelerating Link Round-Up

Posted on by

What happened to all those green shoots?

Stocks rose as the Fed pledged to keep rates low. If the economy was on track they could raise the rates couldn’t they? This is also more punishing of savers who are losing money to inflation by trying to be fiscally responsible. But hey, Wall Street likes it!

New York is suspending payments of tax refunds as their coffers run dry. They’re holding on to as much as possible until April 1st to try to squeeze out every last penny of interest they can. A half billion dollars in tax revenue is being held onto, as well as another billion and a half of payments meant to go to schools and local governments.

Housing construction fell almost 6% in February. The MSM blames the snow, but who will they blame when the new numbers come out?

Construction unemployment is at 21.7%

Corporate junk bond debt bomb set to go off in 2012. May not be the end of the world, but it’ll be the end of a lot of jobs.

Seed prices have been rising while seed companies consolidate. Food inflation is on its way.

Credit card companies have been forced to write off at least 90% of their charge offs for last year. In other words, people are just defaulting on the debt to the tune of $84 billion, which means less credit and higher rates for the rest of us.

FedEx analysts say a double dip recession is all but inevitable.

Author of The Black Swan Nassim Taleb thinks we’re headed for hyperinflation.

The States are in too deep a hole to get out of.

Washington state Walgreens stores have already stopped taking new Medicaid accounts at their pharmacies because the state is reimbursing them at rates that don’t cover the overhead of the pharmacies.

Keep counting those green shoots America!

h/t Drudge and Survivalblog

The Financial Armageddon is Coming Link Round-Up

Posted on by

What happened to all those “green shoots” we heard about? Joblessness continues to drag down the economy and the government is doing its damnedest to make things worse:

Shadow Stats founder John Williams has just announced that he sees no way for America to avoid a hyper-inflationary depression.

Demand for new workers in America continues to collapse.

Moody’s is predicting banks will remain unprofitable for the 2010 fiscal year.

The Obama administration is actually implementing a program to encourage the short selling of homes by troubled borrowers.

Unemployment has risen in 30 states.

Sales tax rates hit are at record highs as states and municipalities struggle to make ends meet.

The proposed Illinois state budget is based on borrowing billions of dollars from the government.

Detroit is looking at a plan to de-populate parts of the city and de-industrialize, turning other parts into farmland.

Needless to say, this looks less like green shoots and more like a slow slide into second world status. Are you prepared?