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5 Items To Include In Your Survival Kit

Category : Preparation

It's always good to have a survival kit in case of emergencies. Such emergencies may include power outages or getting lost during a camping trip. Of course, you may need a survival kit for other situations, as well.

You should have five key items in your survival kit.

1. High-quality flashlights

Don't be cheap with your lighting. You will need plenty of flashlights, as well as batteries. There are LED flashlights with a strong battery life. Additionally, there are LED lights that are powered by a crank.

2. Cooking devices

There are many affordable portable BBQ smokers or grills. They are small enough to carry, but still have plenty of power to effectively cook meals. Of course, don't forget to include charcoal in your survival kit.

3. First-aid kit

Every survival kit needs to have the basic first-aid package, one that includes bandages, gauze pads, rubbing alcohol, Benzoyl Peroxide and essential medicines. If you plan on camping, make sure to include items that clean cuts, bites and mild poisons.

4. Pure water

Power outages are usually associated with sewage failure, causing water to become contaminated. During these times, families are advised to boil all their water before they consume or use it. You can save yourself time by purchasing bottled water or gallons of water.

5. Fire starters

Most people don't know how to create a fire from scratch; therefore, fire starters are essential for survival kits. Though matches are the most convenient, they are also the most unreliable. You should learn to use magnesium fire starters.

Of course, there are other obvious items that you should include in your survival kit, such as a quality knife and extra clothing, but these five items are the most essential. Again, your kit may vary, depending on the type of emergency situation would you most likely incur.

Wake Up & Get Ready

Category : Featured, Preparation

If I had just one question I could ask, it would be asked of the American people: Why Aren’t You Prepared? It’s a legitimate question…I mean we think nothing of shelling out for auto insurance in case we have a fender-bender. We insure our homes, and some even pay for rental insurance in case of fire or theft. And we have health insurance in case of a medical emergency. So why, when food and water are pivotal for survival, don’t more people put food aside?

Is it because we don’t want to be seen as paranoid? Or are we worried about what our loved ones would think? Possibly it’s because we don’t want to give up that daily espresso, or movie night, or those stiletto heels we had to have.

Well, Here’s a wake up call.

  • The United states has exactly enough wheat reserves for ½ a loaf of bread for every man, woman and child
  • To feed the American people ONE meal for ONE day would require over 311,000,000 (311 million) meals
  • The average piece of food must travel 1,500 miles before it reaches the consumer
  • Food prices are driven by oil prices because agriculture is fossil fuel driven
  • Grocery stores have only 72 hours of food on the shelf with ZERO back stock
  • Weather anomalies are on the rise, leading to crop failure and higher food prices
  • Fears of global financial collapse WILL lead to higher food prices & hoarding
  • The average American saves only $392.00 per year and is $117,951 in debt, which includes credit cards, installment loans, home equity loans, and mortgages.
  • Average monthly food costs, per adult, is between $150-$300

Based on the demographics listed above, lets assume you are one of the people who actually saves $392.00 per year, and lets assume your pantry is empty and you must buy food with the cash you have saved. We’ll be conservative and figure that your monthly grocery bill is at the lowest average cost of $150. With this equation, you would be able to feed yourself for a little over 2 ½ months.

The above scenario assumes there has not been a calamity that cleared grocery store shelves within hours. It also assumes truckers are able to deliver food, and that oil prices haven’t been driven up due to political unrest. In our scenario, there couldn’t have been crop failures that further increased food prices. And, there could not have been fears of global financial collapse that lead to hoarding, which lead to inflated food prices and the rationing that is sure to follow.

All in all, it makes perfect sense to fill your pantries…unless you expect meals on wheels to show up at your door, three times a day, 365 days a year.

Barbara Fix, the author of this article, has written a new book entitled "Survival: Prepare Before Disaster Strikes!" (ID: UFKKCVLD2AFV6) Edited December 12, 2011

The cost of the book is $11.66 plus $3.95 shipping. If you are interested in learning how to prepare for the hard times that are ahead, I would encourage you to get this book.

The Fate Of The Earth

Category : War

“But it was too late to save the Great Republic. She was rotten to the heart. Lust of  conquest had long ago done its work; trampling upon the helpless abroad had taught her, by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home; multitudes who had applauded the crushing of other people’s liberties, lived to suffer for their mistake in their own persons. The government was irrevocably in the hands of the prodigiously rich and their hangers-on; the suffrage was become a mere machine, which they used as they chose. There was no principle but commercialism, no patriotism but the pocket.” —Mark Twain

We refuse to admit it, but we humans are in a perilous position. Not being civilized—and as I see it, unlikely to be so in the foreseeable future—we have at least two ways to bring about our extinction: blowing ourselves and pretty well everything else to pieces, or reducing our environment to an insupportable desert. Either way, in the equivalent of the universe’s twinkling of an eye, we could be gone.1

Comprehending the potential of self-annihilation doesn’t come easily. The conventional wisdom is that America is the owner of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world.  Ostensibly, this is the best defense we can buy. But others are also proud members of the nuclear family: Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, Ukraine, Egypt, South Africa, South Korea, North Korea, and Australia, with Iran possibly warming up in the wings. And it is certainly possible that fifty or so other nations may soon join us in this nuclear club. As Jonathan Schell points out in The Seventh Decade, the common heritage of human thought for more than the last sixty years has “defeated every attempt to deliver the world from the danger of nuclear annihilation.”2 Mutually assured destruction keeps us all from dropping the bomb, but it doesn’t stop anyone from building one. How strange it is that our safety depends on how much destructive capacity each of us owns. Is America the safest since we own the most? This is an obsolete concept in a world where a nuclear device may soon be small enough to fit in a suitcase.

With this happy state of affairs in mind, let’s move to the other potential man-made extinction event, the one that is now underway.

As we know, the first law of ethology is “The greater the variety of species, the greater each has for survival.” We are all, in a myriad of ways, dependent upon each other: lions on springbok, elephants on acacia trees, fish on plankton, squirrels on nuts, cows on grass. We all have our survival requirements, which must be continuously met; otherwise, we die out. And this has happened often enough during the 3.5 billion years of life on this planet—itself the best part of 4.7 billion years old—for, as we have seen, at least 99 percent of all life forms are already extinct. So what are the chances for survival of humans since we are so new to this earth and so keen on killing each other?

Our behavior is very likely to create our own extinction by destroying the diversity of life on which we omnivores depend. We destroy things not by accident, as other forms of life may do, but by design. We plow the fields and scatter, but to do so we cut down trees the squirrels and birds need; push the big animals like lions and elephants, as well as our own companions, apes, chimpanzees, and gorillas, off our arable lands into smaller and smaller habitats; and even inflict the captivity of zoos or the cruelty of cages for medical research. We fish the rivers and seas so rapaciously that aquatic life is disappearing to a vanishing point. We have accomplished all this in just a few dozen years. Worse still, as our numbers grow, so too do the rates of extermination of natural animal and vegetable life. Living in the most diverse of environments, we ignore all warnings and pillage the earth as if it can survive us. Well, it can and it will. Unlike us, the earth has the astonishing capacity to regenerate itself. So if the nuclear holocaust doesn’t get us, we can rest assured the destruction of our earth will. We are doing precious little to stop it.

Our nature is to want to believe in hope for a decent future. But “how easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again,” as Mark Twain pointed out. This lie that we the people are in control of our destiny is obvious to all of us if we ever get around to thinking about it. We the people don’t own the airwaves, the media, think tanks, NGOs, lobbies, and certainly not those we vote into power, with the exception of a very small minority that you can count on your fingers. Political power today is centered in the corporate world, just as well-known members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bilderberg Group are the key decision makers influencing that world. It is these privileged few who control the financial, industrial, banking, and other institutions, such as the IMF and the World Bank. They rule the world through ownership of Capitol Hill, the British Parliament, the European Union in Brussels—democratic sideshows that give these interests the pretext of being bystanders, whereas, in reality, they are the puppet masters. And we the people are their puppets.

Republican and Democratic lawmakers, British parliamentarians, European politicians, government bureaucrats, corporate officials, Ivy League deans, and military generals are all well known to us. There is no conspiracy here. They are out in the open, speaking their minds, yet saying virtually nothing while generally behaving admirably. Nevertheless, they share a common purpose. Through their obsession with buying influence, they have come to control the destiny of all of us around them. And while there is no obvious collective impulse, they are themselves influenced by a common interest: the power of the purse. What money dictates, they will be guaranteed to follow. If they are told to bail out Big Banks, continue war in the Middle East, devastate our rainforests, allow illegal immigration, maintain a drug culture (legal or illegal), it really doesn’t matter to them. That’s business. They are mere spokes in the wheel of fortune, grinding personal liberty and freedom of thought into the vacuum of endless TV claptrap. In that sense, they think they own us—not all, of course, but enough of us. George Orwell certainly got that right.

The Quality of Renewal is Not Strained

It is hard to visualize a turning point, a way out of this global decline. But we don’t have a choice. We must come up with a radical new view. Now that we see our very existence growing more tentative every day, it is time to make the paradigm shift to a far healthier future.

Let me be presumptuous and offer a compelling possibility. I am thinking now of a worldwide revolution inspired by the moral majority of the world’s people: women.

What might happen if we took into account the ideas, suggestions, insights, and wisdom of such valued brains of (to name just a few) Vandana Shiva, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Helen Caldicott, Michelle Bachelet, Tarja Halonen, Maud Barlow, Mary McAleese, Portia Simpson-Miller, Vaira Vike-Friberga, Marghanita Lasky, Helen Clark, Rutthy Taubb, and the millions of other intelligent women the world over who have so much to offer this world but are so rarely listened to.

“Know thyself” was the foundation of Greek thought twenty-five hundred years ago. Since then we men have been found wanting. The making of the modern world must be less about building bombs and destroying the life forms with which we coexist, and far more about men and women living together in harmony with all forms of life on this beautiful planet, cooperatively using the brilliant resources of all of our brains.

1. Jim Knapton, Defining the Civilized State http://thedebtweowe.com/changing-our-world

2. Jonathan Schell, The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007–ISBN 9780805081299)

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The preceding was a guest post for The End Of The World by author Jim Knapton.

To know more about Jim Knapton’s new book, Changing Our World: Solutions for a Future, visit his website at http://www.ottolinepublishing.com/. You can send him mail at info@ottolinepublishing.com.

Stone Cold Guarantee: The Rapture Is Not Going To Happen On May 21, 2011 And The End Of The World Is Not Going To Take Place On October 21, 2011

Category : Featured, Religion

Harold Camping (the president of Family Radio) and his small group of followers have been running around the country proclaiming that "we can know" that the rapture is going to take place on May 21, 2011 and that on October 21, 2011 Judgment Day will arrive and that will be the end of the world.  Well, I am here to issue a stone cold guarantee: the rapture is not going to happen on May 21, 2011 and on October 22, 2011 the world will still be here.  The truth is that Harold Camping is nothing more than a false prophet, but the mainstream media loves to give exposure to nutjobs like Camping because it puts all Christians in a bad light.

Camping and his followers have purchased over 2,000 billboards and they are driving around to every state in the nation to proclaim their message of doom.  They even have a website (http://www.wecanknow.com/) where they constantly spew their nonsense.

Well, guess what?

May 21 is going to come and go and the faith of thousands of Christians is going to be shipwrecked because of Harold Camping.

If you are a follower of Harold Camping you need to wake up and start listening to the truth.

Did you know that Harold Camping has predicted the date of the rapture previously?

On September 6th, 1994, hundreds of his followers gathered at an auditorium in Alameda, California waiting for the rapture.

Obviously, it did not happen.

It is not going to happen this time either.

How can I know that?

Because what Harold Camping teaches is in direct contradiction to the Word of God.

Let's take a look at Camping's theory.  Basically it comes down to two numerological proofs.

First of all, Camping believes that "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."

He is actually correct about that.

However, Camping believes that Noah's Flood took place in 4990 BC (he is way, way off with that date) and he believes that adding 7000 years to that date brings us to 2011.

Secondly, Camping believes that there is special significance to the number of days between the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and May 21, 2011.

The following is how a recent article in The Telegraph describes his theory....

After 70 years of studying the Bible, he claims to have developed a system that uses mathematics to interpret prophesies hidden in it. He says the world will end on 21 May, because that will be 722,500 days from 1 April AD33, which he believes was the day of the Crucifixion. The figure of 722,500 is important because you get it by multiplying three holy numbers (five, 10 and 17) together twice. "When I found this out, I tell you, it blew my mind," he said.

To Camping, the number five signifies redemption, the number ten signifies completion and the number 17 signifies heaven.

Camping believes that if you just do the following math equation it will give you the date of the rapture:

5 x 10 x 17 x 5 x 10 x 17 = 722,500 days

Camping and his followers are touting this garbage on billboards all over the nation....

Of course all of this is complete and total nonsense.

There is a massive amount of prophecy in the Scriptures that still needs to be fulfilled.

In a previous article entitled "Why The World Is Not Going To End In 2012", I described just a few of the things that the Scriptures say still need to happen before "the end of the world"....

The Scriptures tell us that there will be a 7 year "Tribulation" period before Jesus returns to this earth.

In Daniel 9:24-27, there is an amazing prophecy about the exact timing of the first coming of the Messiah (which was fulfilled to the exact day by Jesus Christ), and it tells us about one remaining seven year period that will be fulfilled in the last days.

That portion of scripture in the book of Daniel tells us that the Antichrist will put an end to sacrifices and offerings in the rebuilt Jewish Temple in the middle of that seven year period we know as the Tribulation.

So, considering the fact that the Tribulation has not started yet, the Antichrist has not appeared yet and the Jewish Temple has not been rebuilt yet, it looks like we still have quite a long way to go, don't you think?

In the book of Revelation, we have several more confirmations that what Daniel was talking about in his prophecy is a literal seven year period of time....

*In Revelation 12:14 half of the Tribulation is referred to as a time, times and half a time (in other words, three and a half years).

*In Revelation 11:2, half of the Tribulation is referred to as "42 months".

*In Revelation 11:3, we are told that the two witnesses will be given power to prophesy for 1,260 days (which is 3.5 years or half the Tribulation).

*In Revelation 12:6, again there is a reference to 1,260 days.

*In Revelation 13:5, we are told that the "Beast" will exercise his authority for 42 months.

When you read the book of Revelation, you quickly realize that this "Tribulation" period has not started yet.

So we have at least seven more years before Jesus comes back to this earth.

So that is why it can be absolutely guaranteed that the world is not going to end in 2012.

Not only that, but the world is not going to end when Jesus comes back either.

In Revelation chapter 20 it tells us that when Jesus returns, Satan will be bound and Jesus will rule over this earth for 1000 years.

After that, Satan will be released one more time and there will be one more great rebellion, and after that is over then God is going to create a new heaven and a new earth.

So, no, the world is not going to end any time soon.

We have at least another 1000 years to go before God creates a new heaven and a new earth.

Yes, we are living in the end times and yes we are living during a time when huge amounts of Bible prophecy are going to be fulfilled.

But according to the Bible, there is absolutely no way that the rapture is going to happen on May 21, 2011 and there is absolutely no way that the end of the world is going to take place on October 21, 2011.

Harold Camping is flat out a false prophet.

I personally guarantee you that the rapture will not happen on May 21, 2011.

On May 22, 2011 I will be right and Harold Camping and his band of followers will be trying to explain how they "miscalculated".

Please do not let people like that discourage you from following after God.

A 7 year Tribulation is coming.

In Matthew 24:21, Jesus tells us that it will be the worst time in all of human history....

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

There really is going to be an Antichrist.  He really is going to be evil beyond all imagination.  He really is going to kill millions of believers.

Jesus Christ really will return someday.

There really is a heaven.

There really is a hell.

Now is the time to find forgiveness of your sins and eternal life through Jesus Christ.

For much more on how you can become a Christian, we encourage you to check out the following article on another one of our websites: "What Does The Bible Say About Salvation?"

Would A Nuclear Meltdown In Japan Mean The End Of The World As We Know It?

Category : Featured, Natural Disasters

Would a nuclear meltdown of all 6 reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex in Japan mean the end of the world as we know it?  Of course not.  But it would be a complete and total nightmare.  Back in 1986, the Chernobyl meltdown spread nuclear radiation all over the northern hemisphere.  According to some estimates, over a million deaths can be attributed to that disaster.  Unfortunately, now we are facing a situation that could develop into the equivalent of "many Chernobyls".  Radiation levels are rising all over northern Japan and millions of Japanese are trying to figure out what to do.

Should those living in Tokyo stay where they are or should they go?  Many Japanese are already voting with their feet.  Right now there is a mass exodus of people out of the city of Tokyo.  But if everyone in region wanted to flee, where would they all go?  The truth is that there are over 30 million people in and around Tokyo.  There is no way that they can all go some place else.

If something is not done quickly, this is going to turn into an unprecedented nightmare.  Unfortunately, the authorities that are handling this in Japan don't seem to have any answers.  One anonymous senior nuclear industry executive told The Times Of India that Japanese power industry managers are "basically in a full-scale panic" and that "they don't know what to do".

The biggest problem at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex right now is the spent fuel rods.  The spent fuel rods remain extremely hot and extremely radioactive for years after they are done being used in a nuclear reactor.  In order to keep them cool, they are kept in huge pools of water.  In the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex, someone decided that it would be a good idea to locate these spent fuel rod pools near the top of the buildings where the nuclear reactors are housed.

Posted below is a video which explains all this in great detail.  Rachel Maddow is perhaps the most liberal news anchor in all of television, and a lot of what she says is complete and utter nonsense, but in this instance she does a really good job of breaking down exactly what spent fuel rods are and why they are a bigger threat right now than the nuclear reactors are....

If these spent fuel rods are not submerged in water they will degrade very, very rapidly and if hundreds of them are allowed to degrade that would be a complete nightmare.

A recent article by Paul Joseph Watson noted that there are approximately 600,000 spent fuel rods being stored at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex....

The Fukushima Daiichi plant has seven pools dedicated to spent fuel rods. These are located at the top of six reactor buildings – or were until explosions and fires ravaged the plant. On the ground level there is a common pool in a separate building that was critically damaged by the tsunami. Each reactor building pool holds 3,450 fuel rod assemblies and the common pool holds 6,291 fuel rod assemblies. Each assembly holds sixty-three fuel rods. In short, the Fukushima Daiichi plant contains over 600,000 spent fuel rods – a massive amount of radiation that will soon be released into the atmosphere.

Each of these 600,000 spent fuel rods is a potential "dirty bomb".

Are you concerned yet?

What is even more frightening for those of us that live in the United States is that the jet stream takes air from over Japan and transports it directly to the west coast of the United States.

The following YouTube video demonstrates this very clearly....

Everyone agrees that radiation from the nuclear disaster in Japan will reach the United States.

The debate is over whether or not it will be enough to be harmful to human health.

Hopefully we will not be facing high levels of radiation in the United States, but it is always good to be prepared.

So what should one do if the worst happens?

Well, I would recommend checking out an article entitled "How To Survive Nuclear Armageddon" by Tom Horn.  It contains a wealth of information on how to deal with nuclear fallout.

Right about now there are lots of people in Japan that wish they had that type of information.

If the worst case scenario plays out and all 6 of the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex melt down it will not be the end of the world, but it would be an unprecedented disaster.

Let us hope and pray that such a thing does not happen.  But right now the nuclear crisis in Japan is getting worse by the day.

So what do you all think about the unfolding nuclear nightmare in Japan?  Please feel free to leave a comment with your opinion below....