For my money the best book on survival medicine written for those with little or no medical training is Where There Is No Doctor which I suggest everyone add to their bookshelves. But while I was playing around on my new Scribd account (I have an older one too that I forgot about) I found this e-book which covers everything from where to get medical training producing your own anesthetics to delivering a baby. A good reference to download and print out:
NY Democrat Attacks GOP Opponent’s “Jewish Money” Donations!
Increasing antisemitism will lead to violence in the streets. For the left hatred and suspicion of Jews has become mainstream.
From The New York Observer:
Mike Grimm, a G.O.P challenger for Mike McMahon’s Congressional seat, took in over $200,000 in his last filing.
But in an effort to show that Grimm lacks support among voters in the district, which covers Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn, the McMahon campaign compiled a list of Jewish donors to Grimm and provided it to The Politicker.
The file, labeled “Grimm Jewish Money Q2,” for the second quarter fundraising period, shows a list of over 80 names, a half-dozen of which in fact do hail from Staten Island, and a handful of others that list Brooklyn as home.
“Where is Grimm’s money coming from,” said Jennifer Nelson, McMahon’s campaign spokeman. “There is a lot of Jewish money, a lot of money from people in Florida and Manhattan, retirees.”
As a point of comparison, the campaign also provided in-district and out-of-district fundraising totals from McMahon and Grimm’s G.O.P primary opponent, Michael Allegretti. However, they did not provide an out-of-district campaign filing from Grimm, but only a file of Jewish donors to him.
Clearly this is outreach to the growing Islamist population in the Brooklyn and Staten Island area. The Democrats have done the math and Jews are being thrown to the wolves as they embrace Islam as a voting block, which was a successful strategy for Labour in England. If you’re a Jew get out of NYC before it’s too late, and move to a state where you can buy a gun.
h/t Hot Air
Debka Claims Japanese Tanker in Strait Of Hormuz Target of Terror Attack
Debka is more trustworthy than some sources, but they have been known to get it wrong. But if this is true this will have significant impact as the world realizes their ability to buy oil can easily be taken away by a rouge state or worse, a non-state actor:
The Japanese supertanker M. STAR carrying 270,000 tons of oil was damaged by an explosion Wednesday, July 28, caused by a suspected attack in Omani territorial waters near the Strait of Hormuz, which passes Iran and Oman. One lifeboat was blown off the ship and a large dent made in its hull. A crew member was slightly injured, but there was no oil leak.
The spokesperson for the tanker’s owners Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd said: “We believe it’s highly likely an attack from the outside, maybe a terrorist incident. There is nothing that could cause a spontaneous explosion in that part of the vessel.”
But the most striking feature of the incident, noted by debkafile’s military and intelligence sources, is the unusual degree of assent between US Navy and Iranian officials that the damage to the supertanker was caused by an explosion by an unknown hand.“The fire which was triggered by an explosion on the deck of the vessel was contained with the help of the crew and regional forces,” Fars News Agency quoted head of marine department of southern Hormozgan Province, Ali Akbar Saffai, as saying, after two Iranian officials before him had attributed the blast to a low-magnitude earthquake.
Clearly both Washington and Tehran were taken unawares by the first attack ever mounted on a commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow transit channel for some 40 percent of the oil shipped worldwide and one of the most carefully secured waterways in the world.
Both the US and Iran need time to find its cause and decide what to do. Meanwhile, this exceptional circumstance finds them of one mind on at least one issue, the incident must not be allowed to spiral out of control into a larger event.
According to our sources in Washington and Tehran, while waiting for evidence, both speculate that the perpetrators may be either pirates in the pay of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or even a rogue element in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, which is bent on settling scores for the latest UN, US and European sanctions against their country.Tehran has repeatedly warned it will fight back if sanctions hurt its economy and energy supplies.
The attack on the Japanese supertanker intensified Saudi and the Gulf emirates’ concerns over a possible threat to their oil exporting routes. Wednesday night, fearing an unidentified assailant may also go for their oil ports and shore installations, Persian Gulf navies, the Fifth Fleet Bahrain-based headquarters and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards naval installations at Bandar Abbas went on a high alert.
Keep an eye on this one.
Moody’s About to Cut Iceland to Junk Status?
How Bad Will Tomorrow’s News Be?
For me, since I’m turning 39, the news will be grave indeed as my knees and back perform well below expectations. But for the American economy the news will probably even worse. Via Hot Air we can start with this Barclay’s report which is considered an optimistic view of the economy. They’re prediction for growth has been revised to 3%.
I’ll let you read through that but the first few pages are where the worries should be. If you look at the various data as a whole for the last couple of year it looks like several things are happening in the economy, and none of them are really helpful for long term stability of a consumer driven model. The first is that people are getting out of debt and more importantly trying to minimize personal debt. As people who can afford to get out of debt do so we’re left with a population of debters who will never pay off, thus destroying the credit industry long term. The second is that people seemed to run out and make their big purchases all at once while they could, and are now slowing down on buying. Art Laffer predicted this and every survivalist out there knows someone who made a bunch of large purchases while beginning their preps and now is living a frugal lifestyle. The there is is that it looks like economic activity is slowing in proportion to the length of time we have high unemployment, which will not change anytime soon.
Foreclosures are up 75% in major metro areas and there is no real economic good news on the horizon. So I think tomorrow we’re going to see a very bad economic news day, and likely a drop in the Dow in response. Will it be TEOTWAWKI? No. The Obama administration and a complicit media will put a positive spin on things, and investors are far enough removed from the first crash to be overly skittish. This will be just another day for most of us.