"Meanwhile, tens of millions of Americans, encouraged by the Fed, the government, and the real estate and mortgage industries, have plunged mindlessly into the most speculative, overpriced, overleveraged real estate market (bubble) in U.S. history (i.e. 40% of homes purchased in the past 12 months were second homes bought with little equity and primarily for speculation."
"If America (or Israel) attacks Iran, the price of oil is likely to spike to $100 a barrel or more and if Iran responds with an oil embargo or attacks on Persian Gulf shipping or attempts to close down the Strait of Hormuz, oil could spike to $150 to $200 literally overnightand gold could spike to $800-$1,000 in short order."
With the intermittent electricity (if an EMP, Electromagnetic Pulse, bomb(s) strike the atmosphere--perhaps, 2 hours per day in some places; or, none at all, people will be cooking outdoors. Regardless, when this goes down, and it will, your neighbors and city will be cooking outdoors. You will have to do the same if you do not have solar energy for tapping into and bringing into your home. The same goes for propane, butane, etc. The point of all this is that when cooking outside, stay to yourself as much as possible, unless you have formed a secure covenant community with your immediate neighbors to the left and right of you. You should also consider having at least 5 people you can trust within 100 miles of you--people you can trust with your life.
Stay in condition "Yellow" (awareness) and do your outdoor cooking. Remember! Loose Lips Sink Ships! Everyone will be cooking; odors will proliferate; but, as the food supply dwindles, and as the people in the city become acutely aware that "they" are not going to get the problem fixed, and they have been lied to ("store a few days to a week or so of food"), things will begin to heat up drastically....and dramatically.
People will become aggressive, demanding services and help from city officials and YOU! When they don't get the forthcoming help they feel they are entitled to, they, especially the welfare recipients, will become extremely aggressive. They will demand you share with them. You will also learn whom your true friends are. They will not be the "Christians" who chortled at you, belittled you, and said "they know where to come if they need something."
You can rest assured, they will come because you talked; or, a family member talked. They will show up on your doorstep demanding food, fuel, and shelter. What you don't give them, they'll be back with more and then take, if you let them, what they want.
You need to count the COST now, on what it's going to cost you because you gave some supplies, and/or talked! Will there be enough left for your family to see you through this if you give them the first meal---they will be back for the next one, and the one after that. Have you considered all this?
From all over this country, in my invited travels to lecture on Chemical/Biological WarFare....How You Can Survive, I am asked about The Coming Total Financial Collapse of the world; the terrorist problem and its ramifications, the collapsing infrastructure in our cities, and how best to survive all this. One thing I hear most from the Christian Community is that they who have built up a supply of assets and food are criticized, scorned and smirked at by those Christians who are playing the foolish virgins. They mock and belittle the Christians who have prepared for the Coming Storm, as the early Church Saints called it for our time in the 6th and 7th. century.
"God will take care of me!" they exhort to the preparing Christians. "You must have stronger faith," they shout. "God did not give me a spirit of fear," they cry! But, my friends, this is what they are really saying: "You go through the expense, effort, work and time of storing supplies; for me, I'll eat, drink, and have a good time, because it ain't gonna happen." They then add, "But, if it should, I'll be on your doorstep and you have to share with me as the Bible says.
Well, folks, those extravagant Christians need to read 1 Tim. 5:8, which warns us to count the cost: Do we share, at the expense of our own family doing without later? Then what? We turn on God, and we have fallen into the trap Satan set for us. Otherwise, we are no better than the infidel: "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."
That is a legal demand by God to us. Unless we are sure we can fulfill it, then send the beggar away! Who will you help then, if, after counting the cost, and you might be able to--- that person who through no fault of his own could not prepare or was not warned of what was coming, that's who. Dr. Gary North says in Christian Reconstruction, January/February 1999:
"Every resource that we give to a fool cannot be used to provide help to a person who did not see the crisis coming because no one warned him. Every piece of bread handed to the formerly smirking fool is food taken out of the mouth of someone who might have prepared, had he only known. When it comes time for showing mercy, show it first to those who are morally blameless for their helpless condition."
He quotes Candace Turner: They will not prepare, but they will remember. Dr. North further says,
"The beggar is getting to you twice: by ridiculing you in the good times, when sound advice appears to be foolish because it hampers a life style of profligacy, and then by taking food from you in the bad times because you were not misled by the dream of unlimited time and unlimited oil (of the Foolish Virgins, Matthew 25: 1 - 10). The true fool wants it both ways: the right to sneer at good judgment in the days of wine and roses, and to be fed by the provident in the day of the locust."
We recommend instant (parboiled or pre-cooked) white rice. It last much longer than brown rice and takes much less water to cook it in. Nor do bugs infest it as their larvae/eggs have been destroyed.
Have enough Stored Foods (B) to last 3 1/2 years or longer. This is going to be a terrible shake-out, and you want to be one of those that survive. Eat from (A), (B), & (C), for the first three months when the aggression starts. Then, as food runs out in stores, and it becomes dangerous to cook out- and indoors (odors and infrared signals that you have food and fuel), use Freeze Dried (see below) for the next 3 months (beginning around April 2000, maybe sooner). After 6 months (1st. three: (A), (B), (C); 2nd. three months: Freeze Dried only), then "test" the waters; if safe, you go back to eating from (A), (B), (C) and cooking. (A), canned foods, will run out most likely. Save your Freeze Dried (if any are left) only for emergencies, should emergencies arise unexpectedly again----and they probably will. Learn now to eat less. Stop super-sizing it!
Remember, if you are cooking in your backyard, and so will most others, you will be fairly safe for a while. Stay in condition YELLOW! But note, odors carry! When things start getting aggressive, probably within 3 or 4 months of the initial collapse---move it indoors. Don't be broadcasting you still have food and fuel in the neighborhood while others have diminished theirs and have to stand in food rationing lines. Stop early.
If people smell odors, this tells them you also have fuel too. If you move it inside and continue to cook, except for very short periods of boiling of water for Freeze Dried preparations, hunters and others have infrared seeking scopes that will lead them directly to you, even if you mask the odors and smoke. Go Freeze Dried at this time and not risk detection by sending signals that you have resources, except what FEMA may dole out to you. It will still be risky; stay indoors, leave no odor/infrared/garbage trail---Go Freeze Dried at this time!
Foods you cook will serve like a beacon in the night for marauders, plunderers, and thieves looking for food, fuel, shelter, and females. They did not prepare or prepare adequately---they believed the "big" lie, store only for a few days to a week or so. They will feel like what you've got belongs to them; they are "entitled" to it. This entitlement idea is what has been bequeathed to us from "Big Brother."
Have the following type of food that you and your family can "hunker" down with. It will take a miminum of fuss and the least amount of effort to prepare. Get prepared now:
But you want milk and egg ingredients too, along with other food stuffs. You also need food entrees, such as Rice & Chicken; Spaghetti w/Meat & Sauce; Sweet & Sour Pork w/Rice; Hearty Stew w/Beef, and entrees whereby all you do is add hot or cold water--foods that need little or no cooking to save on fuel under temporary harsh conditions. However, we suggest Plain Food, such as diced cooked beef, chicken, instant rice, garden peas, etc. The entrees are going to have more sauces and SALT. This means more water consumption, and water is going to be a problem.
The foods are already prepared, just-add-water and eat! For the meat, just cover them in warm water for 15- 30 minutes; then sear on each side for a few minutes or cook your favorite way. They are then ready to eat. They come in #10 size cans with instructions printed on can for preparing of all their entrees; or, in Convenient Preparation Pouches (eat out of the pouch) that are compact and lightweight. These are stable for 3 - 5 years.
Freeze-Dried Real Meats |
Cost Per Case |
Servings /Can |
---|---|---|
Beef, cooked, diced |
$309.00 |
27 - 1/3 cup servings |
Chicken, cooked, diced |
$331.50 |
14 - 3/4 cup servings |
Ham, cooked, diced |
$489.90 |
27 - 1/3 cup servings |
Vegetarian Entrees |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/Can |
Wild Rice/Mushroom Pilaf |
$162.90 |
10 - 1 cup servngs |
Pasta Primavera |
$200.40 |
15 - 1 cup servings |
Miscellaneous |
Cost Per Case |
Servings /Can |
Instant White Rice |
$93.90 |
24 - 3/4 cup servings |
Crackers (pilot bread) |
$102.60 |
70 crackers; no reconstitution |
Breakfast Entrees |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/ Can |
Western-Style Omelette |
$205.80 |
17 - 3/4 cup servings |
Precooked Eggs w/Bacon |
$150.00 |
20 - 1/2 cup servings |
Granola w/Blueberries & Milk |
$219.00 |
27 - 1/2 cup servings |
Chicken Entrees |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/ Can |
Rice & Chicken |
$128.40 |
8 - 1 cup servings |
Noodles & Chicken |
$198.30 |
16 - 1 cup servings |
Chicken Stew |
$200.70 |
10 - 1 cup servings |
Beef Entrees |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/ Can |
Vegetable Stew w/Beef |
$178.50 |
8 - 1 cup servings |
Hearty Stew w/Beef |
$251.40 |
17 - 1 cup servings |
Spaghetti w/Meat Sauce |
$114.15 |
10 - 1 cup servings |
Desserts |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/ Can |
Nut Chocolate LURPS® |
$279.00 |
47 - 1/4 cup servings |
Raspberry Crumble |
$132.00 |
12 - 1/2 cup servings |
Blueberry Cheesecake |
$132.00 |
12 - 1/2 cup servings |
Vegetables |
Cost Per Case |
Servings/ Can |
Garden Green Peas |
$117.00 |
22 - 1/2 cup servings |
Green Beans |
$112.50 |
20 - 1/2 cup servings |
Golden Sweet Whole Kernel Corn |
$131.40 |
22 - 1/2 cup servings |
Be advised of the following: If you bring people into your home, and you "think" you are bringing them in for a few days to a week, then think again. Once in, you won't get them out...period. Where will they go? How will they survive? These aren't easy questions and no easy, forthcoming answers, especially when you see all the hell going on out there.
The guilt trip on you will be horrendous, but the COST to your family, as explained above, will be even more. Do you want this, and the attendant problems associated with it at a time when you don't need problems? What if you have kids, and they too have kids. You planned for your family needs, but do you think, even if sharing, under harsh conditions, things will be pleasant?
Your kids will be denied at the expense of sharing with others who could have provided for themselves when times were plentiful---but didn't. They were profligate (extravagant) with their resources and chortled at you. Altercations are going to break out under such trying conditions, especially for your own family. Did you bargain for this? Count the COST. What if your kid has something that you specifically planned for your child to have, and an adult "guest" takes it away from him and gives it to theirs, saying, "We must all share, now."--- with your planned resources.
Don't you see, you're not the Master of your own domicile anymore; nor the one who dispenses resources. As days pass into weeks, and months, your authority will be quickly or gradually be undermined, and those present will use your assets as theirs, when so desired....WHY? Count the COST: They did not have to do without and undergo the stress and tension of putting it all together.
And when they see---what appears to them---to be plenty, they will use those resources as desired; after all, they did not have to compile them. Thus, they do not understand how and when they are to be used; nor, how long they must last. They will probably be telling you that just down the street---and this implies another danger: they're out talking-- they heard that the Total Collapse of the Financial System will be short-lived. Therefore, they have not planned for a long seige, nor do they understand it and thereby, they will use your supplies with reckless abandon.
History shows that people who get something for nothing (entitlements) feel they are owed something and do not conserve resources. And nothing makes people madder when they didn't earn something and then have it taken away from them.
As we just said, if you and your neighbors in the city or rural area did not plan a Covenant Community with one, two, or more--to work together, and each stored for his family's personal needs, the questions posed are not easy to answer, we are putting forth to you. Now is the time to make decisions, and stick to them. Don't vacillate under pressure, because you will invariably make the wrong decision. Being prepared also includes mental and spiritual preparations. Pray for discernment in these matters and remember 1 Tim. 5: 8.
You must decide now what you are going to do if people just show up on your doorstep. If you talked, you can rest ASSURED they're going to be there! That's why you want a rural out-of-the-ordinary place now. Remember! Loose Lips Sink Ships!
The stress is going to be shockingly dreadful; depression in the U.S will skyrocket. If you allow people to come into your home, and have planned for an exact number, and then some, there are rules you MUST exact. Most people I have spoken to across America in my invited travels have not considered the following. You must do so now if you are to maintain some semblance of normalcy and survive in such trying times just ahead:
To make the monitoring of supplies clearer, buy a 5-lb sack of all purpose flour. Make a 2-cups of flour recipe of biscuits every morning. Some flour is used for dusting purposes. There are about 18.75-cups to the sack. In less than 9.37 days, if you just make biscuits only---no pies, cakes, gravies, and so forth---that flour is called for in innumerable recipes, your 5-lb sack will be gone in less than a week. You won't be able to just simply go out and get more as it's needed. You need to monitor your supplies! Count the COST!
Take toilet paper, the average male adult, females more, needs at least 120 rolls per person per year. You WebMasters suggest 150 rolls per person. We do not suggest you use any of this for barter; other items, maybe. But not your toilet paper. Again, count the Cost.
If resources are not monitored, and some, as in the military service, kept under lock and key, a family member or "guest" decides they want to, say, make bread; another wants pancakes for a snack; still another wants a tortillas for burritos, you will soon be out of supplies. You must monitor and explain why and when food and other life-sustaining necessities, such as water, is to be consumed. This is not to be harsh; it is to make precious assets last.
Most Americans are used to Super-Sized portions. You must also prepare to dictate and monitor serving sizes. Have guests eat slowly to allow the blood sugar to rise and create satiety.
This can be done by holding discussions or having a Bible reading at meals.
We suggest one light meal and one medium to heavier meal, all nutritious and complete. You must plan on 1 - 3 high protein snacks per day. The accompanying stress will cause the Cortisol hormone to rise and this will in turn increase protein tissue (muscle loss) and decrease your immune system's ability to function at its best. Excess cortisol, as scientists are now already seeing, will be rising exponentially when this goes down, will cause "fuzzy" headedness and "forgetfullness." You will need mental clarity during this time especially. Remember, you have got to make your food last 3 1/2 years! Folks, this is going to be a long, hard seige---a Chastisement from God is coming.
Note 1:
Powered milk has its L-Lysine, a necessary amino acid, for growth, maintenance, and repair, tied up mostly with the fructose of the milk. This means you will not be getting all eight essential (nine for a child under 1 year of age; he needs L-Histidine too).
Therefore, store lysine tablets from your health food store and consume 1-500 mg to a 1000 mg tablet with each glass of powdered milk you drink as a snack. Or eat plenty of legumes (beans) with the milk to get the lysine. And/or, store several cases of protein powder from your health food store, such as Whey Protein Powder.
Note 2:
Stress, especially with what is soon to break over us, demands we get plenty of good, high-quality, usuable protein. Also, you will need calories, or you will cannabalize your own tissues to supply the body's needs. To stop this, you need calories, and, at the same time, you must conserve your food supplies. Excess protein is a wasteful source of calories when it is primarily needed for building, repair, and maintenance of tissues. You can eat more of your food storage to supply the calories, but this will cause them to dwindle down too fast.
The Solution:
Increase your fat, yes, that's right, fat intake. This supplies necessary calories and at the same time, if you use tropical oils, such as coconut oil, protects the immune system, kills fungus, yeast, parasitic eggs, and a host of other microorganisms. Saturated fat, like real butter and tropical oils, helps tame the toxicity of the polyunsaturated fats.
When you eat protective fats, or fats in general, you make up the calorie deficit; conserve food needed for more than just energy. Store tropical oils, lard (if you can get it without partial hydrogenation), Olive oils and Extra-Virgin Olive Oil, and shortening. Also, many companies offer dehydrated sour cream, butter, and shortening powder. Get the FATS.
If you, which you should not, have any friends coming to stay with you during this lengthy period [they think they'll stay for a week or two until things quieten back to normal; they will, in reality, stay for a year or longer--so long as you have your assets (food and water)], then you must have a plan and rules to implement them. You only want those with similar mindset come to stay with you, or you with them; those who have prepared in advance, and form a covenant community with that person or persons. You want someone to be an asset not a libility, who comes to stay with you.
There will be several generations living under one roof! Your kids, grandkids, etc. and possibily their friends. Make it plain, they are not to bring "guests" with them. You don't know them and you can be certain, they "ain't" going to like the way you do things. Lay down the rules. No extra people!
Reason:
Sooner, if the Stock Market crashes, the rush for security will begin in earnest by those who realize they have not been told the truth, and commence to frenetically get provisions because they did not prepare in advance. You will witness a mad rush for shelter, security, and safety. As the problem intensifies into the next three months and everyone that competed in the mad rush; or, did not prepare will suddenly find themselves standing in rationing lines. The problem here is that the U.S does not have enough to go around to everyone in the states! If you don't prepare, I can assure you, you're not going to like the foods the government has stored for you.
There is currently only a few pounds of food stored for every man, woman and child in America; enough for 3 days.
What The Government Will Feed You:
Of the 15.7 pounds of food stored per person in the United States (this isn't counting all the illegal Mexicans in the U.S.--somebody's going to be getting your food!), 11 pounds of unprocessed wheat will be doled out to you in times of emergency; it has questionable value. The rest of the foodstuffs will be cheese, corn, lentils,peanuts and non-fat, dry milk. If you don't like the sound of this, get prepared. I can't say it any clearer.
Things now get really nasty. Mr. Ugly comes out. People will become rogues and scoundrels, especially men. They will be looking for food, fuel, and FEMALES. The Three Fs. Why Females? For pleasure, under harsh conditions.
Remember this: Under dire lawless circumstances, you can only own what you can physically protect. You have no rights except that which you can defend! 911 may not work....if it does, there may not be enough help left to cover you. They will be busy defending what they have. And, if the market crashes and an EMP bomb disrupts the electronic promises to pay and the means to transfer funds, do you think anyone will be placing their lives on the line for you when (1) they haven't been paid; and (2) their own families are at risk? You saw a slight forerunner of this in New Orleans (2005 hurricane Katrina)
Reason:
It won't take long for the invited guests to realize this is going to be a long, drawn out seige, and they will have notified certain special friends of theirs (we all have them) to come and join them where there are assets. Under such conditions, you will find youself a prisoner in your own home and resources doled out to you as seen fit--if you and your family are allowed to stay in your own home and are not thrown out at gunpoint because you did not commandeer all weapons. As on a military submarine, weapons are issued only under certain conditions, and then, when the danger passes, re-commandeered. Do likewise.
Reason:
If food is not under lock and key; or at least supervised carefully, you will find people stealing food, and this more often leads to wastefulness. They will appropriate the food, not because they are hungry, but because they may find it cute; or, because they did not like the rations they ate at dinner and "want some of the good stuff you've got hidden for later."
If you give in to their whims, allergies, etc, you will soon find your menus no longer balanced. Tell them up front: sorry, but this is all we could plan with our meager reserves; perhaps, if you would have done for yourself and family, we could share and all be the better for it.
Ideally, you should inform people coming into your home, before they arrive, that there will be no rejection of what foodstuffs and resources are offered; else, go elsewhere!
They must contribute. This helps build loyalty. Small children can be given meaningful tasks and chores, such as weeding the garden and picking off dead leaves. They can also water and insecticide the garden. They must pick up after themselves and they must eat what they take. Skipping meals will not be allowed. If safety permits, go out in twos or fours to receive rationing of goods by FEMA, if they come to your area. This will also help in protection and safety. When out, women should dress like boys or men--no jewelry and unattractive. No perfume! Best to have stored plenty and stay off the streets. Men, no aftershave. Odors (food, perfume, cigarette smoke, etc.) carry a long way. You don't want to call attention to yourself.
Don't believe us? Then, have they prepared; or, do they buy into the "happy face" the government has created about the inflated stock market bubble that Wall Street says can only go up, up...up? If the answer to this is a resounding NO to their believing that they should have prepared---it's a little late now, but with money, they can do it; then you don't know what you are really in for if you have plannned to have them in. If they are coming, then start now on preparing them with the rules. If they object, use tough love, they can't come. They will only get you and them killed, in addition to your grandchildren.
I hear horror stories all over the country where I am invited to lecture on Chemical/Biological WarFare concerning peoples' grown children and their grandkids.
Do you really know how your "guests" will react to roving gangs trying to bang their way into your house for food, fuel, and females? If you are going to have friends in, then you'd better set the rules and practice now with them, if you want your family and them to survive. Your WebMasters want you all to survive. That's what we do, save lives and souls. But, there's a way to do it and a way not to do it.
For instance, an unruly mob drives down the street, such as the one in the L.A. riots. They pick your house because they may have seen a FEMALE peeking out the window wanting to see what's going on. Perhaps, they just chose your house ramdomly, and your posted people (you will have to assign duties to watching the front and back and sides when things get really rough for three or so months) alert the members of the house; or, you do the alerting that something's going down. Before you have a chance to say more, one of the uninvited women, or guests starts s-c-r-e-a-m-i-n-g in panic, giving away your positions, and that you know something is amiss outside. They have alerted the marauders, who will be more aware.
What if you announce to your people, "Everybody take your positions!" And one or two guests, not your family because you, hopefully, have trained them against such actions by now, ask, "What's going on?" "I wanna know?" "Let me look out the window?...."
You want instant obedience or those lost, few short seconds while you have to dicker with your guests to do their duty, allows the rogues to secure their position(s) at your windows, backdoor; even bust into your house, throwing more panic into the untrained, undisciplined people staying with you. You have been overcome, undone, when it didn't have to happened. You must practice and discuss .... discuss ... and discuss, the roles and action you all will perform. You've got to have rules set forth. Do it now. It is also advisable to have an alternate plan if your primary plan fails.
I have actually talked to men who have told me they are not storing, but just a little bit to none at all. They plan to be "maurauders!" That's it, that is exactly what I have been told by well-respected citizens. That's the exact word used. They don't mind taking what you've got. If you can defend what's yours, they'll go quickly elsewhere. "Why should I die," one told me, "when there are so many out there that don't believe in guns!"
And we might add, if they have them, well, "The women don't know really how to use them under pressure," another said. Throughout my travels, I find this to be very true. The women are depending on the menfolk. Learn now what to do and how to do it if you own a gun and are a woman. Practice...practice....practice. See a gun instructor with NRA credentials.
Are you prepared for a raging, irrational addict on your hands? I'll tell you what he's going to do: He is going to sell you "down the river" to the nearest person that can supply his needs. This means he is going to be talking covertly and NOT following the rules.
I have parents who actually know for a fact that their children use the "stuff," and want to know what to do about the whole situation. I tell them right off to SHUT up about what's coming and don't talk about how they are storing resources. Otherwise, their children will show up on their doorstep demanding handouts, and proferring the most pitiful story one could expect. They will also create incredible pain and suffering if the parents take them in.
Folks! Know Your People! ---and this means "them" that you have planned to have come stay with you. Remember, addicts run in packs....that's right, they need someone of kindred spirit to help them in the support and approval of their habits. Those around them that don't indulge, well, life is made into a living hell for them.
Allow no outside calls even if you monitor them. Remember, caller ID can be used eventually as a trace to your whereabouts. These rules must be explained in advance, if possible. When this goes down, hunker down.
Break your own rules and you and your family may pay a terrible price. Know, most Americans are not disciplined, they want their own way when they want it. This is going to be rough on all.
You can rest assured there will be others out there who will make their living off of barter. They prepared extensively so they can---but, they have plannned it well, such that they find out what you've got, and then...send in their second team to confiscate your resources at whatever means. Be as King David, "Oh Lord, help me keep my mouth shut, and my lips sealed."
Law and Order may, in many areas, be transient or nonexistent. There will be others who may dress as law enforcement officers and delude you; once in, they take what they want at gun point. Be advised: "Be wise as serpents and meek as doves."