I believe it is important for everyone to be able to defend themselves and be able to use armaments to do so. There may come times where the police are not available and you will need to defend your family and survival supplies from looters and roving gangs.
Having established that, let me say categorically that I DO NOT condone, applaud, support, defend, or participate in any act of violence against any person, in particular against fellow American Citizens.
Acts of violence and terrorism do not accomplish anything except to provide the Federal Government with the "evidence" it can use to take away more of our freedoms in the name of "safety" and "security".
Monday, November 21, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
PREPARING FOR THE NEXT NATIONAL DISASTER JUST AROUND THE CORNER
By Dr. Patrick Jonston
May 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
Foreseeing Evil
"A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." -Proverbs 22:3
Over 650 Tornadoes spawned in April according to the National Weather Service. That shatters national record by nearly a hundred more than the last three Aprils combined.
This month, the Mississippi River flooded more land than it has in the past forty years.
2010 saw a record number of earthquakes. Oh how many lives could have been saved if people were only prepared!
My pastor's wife was a passenger in a tragic motor vehicle accident several years ago when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. As a result of that accident, she almost lost her ability to walk. On a trip out of town recently, she commented that she was unable to sleep in a car as a result of that accident.
My thoughts went to how many accidents I had in my life that were avoidable if only I hadn't been "asleep at the wheel." When I was ten years old, I swung from a tire swing two stories in the air from a tree fort I had built. Unfortunately, the tire was tied to the tree branch overhead by copper telephone wire, which, of course, stretched and snapped, sending me speeding to the ground where I landed on my
back and was knocked unconscious. My brother found me with a tire around my waist on the ground three hours later. (My head lay in the dirt between two large roots that were sticking out of the ground.)
Jesus warned his followers that when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies, they should flee to the hills. How, you might wonder, could they flee to the hills if Jerusalem was surrounded by armies? Titus, in A.D. 70, abandoned his plan to lay siege to Jerusalem, and Jews celebrated their divine deliverance. However, the Christians who remembered what Jesus prophesied took this opportunity to leave the
city and flee to the hills. Titus soon returned and laid siege to Jerusalem until the Jews were feeding off and murdering each other.
Jerusalem was totally destroyed, but the Christians survived - if they were prepared. It's not easy to live in the hills unless you were prepared.
The consequences for nations who abandon God’s Word for alternative moral standards is devastating. Nations may rise to greatness over centuries, but once the longsuffering of God is finally exhausted, it may shrink to slavery in a day. But not before the prophets issue their warnings. One such prophet of God was David Wilkerson, and his tragic death in April gives me the distinct impression that the United States is entering a new phase that may culminate in the bitter judgment and fiery calamity that Wilkerson envisioned.
The Economic Disaster Around the Corner
Congress has recently been trying to negotiate a remedy for the government's massive, unsustainable debt. The most heated arguments involve the soaring price of fuel, but that is missing the forest for a tree. The Democrats propose raising taxes while the Republicans propose easing restrictions on off-shore drilling, but both remedies are like bandaids on a festering cancer. Very few leaders propose the kind of drastic changes necessary in order to halt the inevitable disaster.
The most pressing problem is that our debt is so great that the central government must increase how much the United States can borrow so that it can continue to pay its bills and avoid defaulting on its debt, or else must drastically reduce spending. In March of this year, our central government spent eight times as much money as came in through tax revenue! Most of that spending went to those who redeemed Treasury securities that matured. That's the problem with borrowing to pay your bills: if you take out more and more credit cards to pay your bills, one day, the minimal monthly payment on your debt is over half your paycheck!
Of the next top four bills our central government must pay, three are entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security), and fourth most expensive bill is defense.
Our central government is borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we spend. You try borrowing on credit card debt 40% of your weekly budget, and see where that gets you - bankruptcy court! Our nation's debt now is over 14 trillion dollars, which is slightly over 100% of the gross domestic product of the whole country. This year, tax receipts and other forms of revenue will only cover about 57 percent of what the government spends. The government will borrow, by issuing Treasury securities, to cover the other 43 percent.
What will happen when borrowing that 43% gets us to the 14.3 trillion limit on borrowing?
According to Reuters News Service, "The Treasury Department says Washington will breach the congressionally-set $14.3 trillion limit on borrowing by around May 16. By employing extraordinary measures, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be able to stave off a default, but only until July 8."
May 16? Talk about "just around the corner"!
Well, what are we going to do about it?
Some hope that the central government will raise the debt ceiling, but that just postpones the day of reckoning. That amount of debt is impossible to repay. Weighing our children and grandchildren down with massive debt through the increase in taxation and reduction in benefits is an inappropriate prescription for their parents' and grandparents' greed.
What changes are necessary to avoid disaster? Many fiscal commissions and economic panels have been assembled and proposed the changes that are necessary, but the government prefers to bloat the massive debt with escalated borrowing, all the while praying that they won't be in office when the deck of cards comes crashing down. Why won't politicians make the necessary changes in spending; namely, changes to military, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and healthcare?
They don't want to upset the voters.
Why Do Democracies Collapse?
That reminds me of well-known quote from an eighteenth century Scottish professor named Alexander Tytler, who when describing the causes of the fall of the Athenian Republican two hundred years earlier, said:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
"Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
The voters have figured out how to "vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." It's what Frederic Basiot called "legal plunder" and it's become the American way of life. Government handouts, including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment, make up more than a third of total wages and salaries in the U.S. Those who make 2/3 of the nation's money are forced, upon pain of fine, prison, or property confiscation, to pay for the non-working citizens' bills. That's socialism, and it does not bode well for our freedom.
Where are we on Professor Tytler's timeline from liberty to bondage? Definitely, dependence. On God? No, on government. The politicians aren't proposing necessary remedies because they don't want to upset the voters who are dependent on government.
Now, we are beginning to "collapse over loose fiscal policy."
What You Must Do to Prepare
Have you ever seen a community "freak out" over a disaster, such as a flood or hurricane? I've been in South Florida as a large hurricane threatened the shoreline, and the grocery shelves were emptied in hours. Do you remember what happened to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina? Remember the looting and the riots? Do you remember the crime in the street, and the murder and rape of the innocent? Do you
remember the riots that broke out in big cities all over the nation after the officers who beat up Rodney King were acquitted? Do you remember the L.A. riots, when criminals descended upon neighborhoods to loot and murder, when people were drug out of their cars because of the color of their skin and abused? Remember that trucker who was dragged out of his semi, beat senseless, and then had his head crushed with a brick? Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Are you prepared?
At the very least, everyone must have a place away from the city where they can go for an emergency, whether it be economic disaster and the subsequent social unrest, or from a terrorist attack, etc. If you don't have the ability to purchase land in the country near neighbors you trust, you need to make some friends. People in the country will need companions that they can trust who can join them in a time of crisis.
You need to have enough gasoline to get you to your destination. Prepare for fuel pumps to not be operational, and you won't be deserted in the middle of nowhere if they aren't.
You need to have enough food for a year. This is one thing that may be worth going into debt for. Learn how to store it safely for long term with mylar bags and oxygen absorbers in five gallon buckets.
You need to have non-hybrid seeds for planting a garden (only non-hybrid seeds produces fruit whose seeds can be replanted.)
You need to have the ability and the courage to defend your family and your property from looters and criminals.
Lastly and most importantly, we must repent of our sin that has brought on this disaster. Our country deserves the judgment that is coming because of our sin. Don't point the finger at a political party, a political leader, or the Muslim terrorists, or the Federal Reserve, or any of the boogey mans that will be blamed for the crisis.
When Jeremiah prophesied judgment upon Israel for sin, the false prophets promised continued blessing and security. Jeremiah urged repentance, the false prophets urged alliance with Egypt.
Allies can’t save us. Borrowing can’t save us. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes in vain” (Ps. 127).
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord's" the Scripture says, and "Every nation that forgets God will be turned into hell." America, sooner or later, will face national judgment for our national sin.
The Christians who obeyed Jesus' admonition to get out of the Jerusalem were saved because of their faith and obedience to God. Their children were free because their parents believed and obeyed. It was almost four decades from Jesus' warning until it came to pass. Even if judgment on our country doesn't come in our lifetime, we must
be like Jonadab who prepared his children for the judgment that the prophet foretold, and several generations later, they were still following Jonadab’s instructions and were able to escape the promised judgment. We must prepare our children too. Don't get shut out of God's blessing because your lamps ran out of oil, and you weren't prepared.
Full article and links to more info:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Johnston/patrick131.htm
Government Gone Wild
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtVbUmcQSuk&feature=player_embedded
The Day the Dollar Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8gJSMoOJc&feature=pyv&ad=6050032234&kw=obama
The End of Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ&feature=relmfu
May 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
Foreseeing Evil
"A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished." -Proverbs 22:3
Over 650 Tornadoes spawned in April according to the National Weather Service. That shatters national record by nearly a hundred more than the last three Aprils combined.
This month, the Mississippi River flooded more land than it has in the past forty years.
2010 saw a record number of earthquakes. Oh how many lives could have been saved if people were only prepared!
My pastor's wife was a passenger in a tragic motor vehicle accident several years ago when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. As a result of that accident, she almost lost her ability to walk. On a trip out of town recently, she commented that she was unable to sleep in a car as a result of that accident.
My thoughts went to how many accidents I had in my life that were avoidable if only I hadn't been "asleep at the wheel." When I was ten years old, I swung from a tire swing two stories in the air from a tree fort I had built. Unfortunately, the tire was tied to the tree branch overhead by copper telephone wire, which, of course, stretched and snapped, sending me speeding to the ground where I landed on my
back and was knocked unconscious. My brother found me with a tire around my waist on the ground three hours later. (My head lay in the dirt between two large roots that were sticking out of the ground.)
Jesus warned his followers that when they saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies, they should flee to the hills. How, you might wonder, could they flee to the hills if Jerusalem was surrounded by armies? Titus, in A.D. 70, abandoned his plan to lay siege to Jerusalem, and Jews celebrated their divine deliverance. However, the Christians who remembered what Jesus prophesied took this opportunity to leave the
city and flee to the hills. Titus soon returned and laid siege to Jerusalem until the Jews were feeding off and murdering each other.
Jerusalem was totally destroyed, but the Christians survived - if they were prepared. It's not easy to live in the hills unless you were prepared.
The consequences for nations who abandon God’s Word for alternative moral standards is devastating. Nations may rise to greatness over centuries, but once the longsuffering of God is finally exhausted, it may shrink to slavery in a day. But not before the prophets issue their warnings. One such prophet of God was David Wilkerson, and his tragic death in April gives me the distinct impression that the United States is entering a new phase that may culminate in the bitter judgment and fiery calamity that Wilkerson envisioned.
The Economic Disaster Around the Corner
Congress has recently been trying to negotiate a remedy for the government's massive, unsustainable debt. The most heated arguments involve the soaring price of fuel, but that is missing the forest for a tree. The Democrats propose raising taxes while the Republicans propose easing restrictions on off-shore drilling, but both remedies are like bandaids on a festering cancer. Very few leaders propose the kind of drastic changes necessary in order to halt the inevitable disaster.
The most pressing problem is that our debt is so great that the central government must increase how much the United States can borrow so that it can continue to pay its bills and avoid defaulting on its debt, or else must drastically reduce spending. In March of this year, our central government spent eight times as much money as came in through tax revenue! Most of that spending went to those who redeemed Treasury securities that matured. That's the problem with borrowing to pay your bills: if you take out more and more credit cards to pay your bills, one day, the minimal monthly payment on your debt is over half your paycheck!
Of the next top four bills our central government must pay, three are entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security), and fourth most expensive bill is defense.
Our central government is borrowing 40 cents on every dollar we spend. You try borrowing on credit card debt 40% of your weekly budget, and see where that gets you - bankruptcy court! Our nation's debt now is over 14 trillion dollars, which is slightly over 100% of the gross domestic product of the whole country. This year, tax receipts and other forms of revenue will only cover about 57 percent of what the government spends. The government will borrow, by issuing Treasury securities, to cover the other 43 percent.
What will happen when borrowing that 43% gets us to the 14.3 trillion limit on borrowing?
According to Reuters News Service, "The Treasury Department says Washington will breach the congressionally-set $14.3 trillion limit on borrowing by around May 16. By employing extraordinary measures, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will be able to stave off a default, but only until July 8."
May 16? Talk about "just around the corner"!
Well, what are we going to do about it?
Some hope that the central government will raise the debt ceiling, but that just postpones the day of reckoning. That amount of debt is impossible to repay. Weighing our children and grandchildren down with massive debt through the increase in taxation and reduction in benefits is an inappropriate prescription for their parents' and grandparents' greed.
What changes are necessary to avoid disaster? Many fiscal commissions and economic panels have been assembled and proposed the changes that are necessary, but the government prefers to bloat the massive debt with escalated borrowing, all the while praying that they won't be in office when the deck of cards comes crashing down. Why won't politicians make the necessary changes in spending; namely, changes to military, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and healthcare?
They don't want to upset the voters.
Why Do Democracies Collapse?
That reminds me of well-known quote from an eighteenth century Scottish professor named Alexander Tytler, who when describing the causes of the fall of the Athenian Republican two hundred years earlier, said:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
"Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage."
The voters have figured out how to "vote themselves largesse from the public treasury." It's what Frederic Basiot called "legal plunder" and it's become the American way of life. Government handouts, including Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment, make up more than a third of total wages and salaries in the U.S. Those who make 2/3 of the nation's money are forced, upon pain of fine, prison, or property confiscation, to pay for the non-working citizens' bills. That's socialism, and it does not bode well for our freedom.
Where are we on Professor Tytler's timeline from liberty to bondage? Definitely, dependence. On God? No, on government. The politicians aren't proposing necessary remedies because they don't want to upset the voters who are dependent on government.
Now, we are beginning to "collapse over loose fiscal policy."
What You Must Do to Prepare
Have you ever seen a community "freak out" over a disaster, such as a flood or hurricane? I've been in South Florida as a large hurricane threatened the shoreline, and the grocery shelves were emptied in hours. Do you remember what happened to New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina? Remember the looting and the riots? Do you remember the crime in the street, and the murder and rape of the innocent? Do you
remember the riots that broke out in big cities all over the nation after the officers who beat up Rodney King were acquitted? Do you remember the L.A. riots, when criminals descended upon neighborhoods to loot and murder, when people were drug out of their cars because of the color of their skin and abused? Remember that trucker who was dragged out of his semi, beat senseless, and then had his head crushed with a brick? Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
Are you prepared?
At the very least, everyone must have a place away from the city where they can go for an emergency, whether it be economic disaster and the subsequent social unrest, or from a terrorist attack, etc. If you don't have the ability to purchase land in the country near neighbors you trust, you need to make some friends. People in the country will need companions that they can trust who can join them in a time of crisis.
You need to have enough gasoline to get you to your destination. Prepare for fuel pumps to not be operational, and you won't be deserted in the middle of nowhere if they aren't.
You need to have enough food for a year. This is one thing that may be worth going into debt for. Learn how to store it safely for long term with mylar bags and oxygen absorbers in five gallon buckets.
You need to have non-hybrid seeds for planting a garden (only non-hybrid seeds produces fruit whose seeds can be replanted.)
You need to have the ability and the courage to defend your family and your property from looters and criminals.
Lastly and most importantly, we must repent of our sin that has brought on this disaster. Our country deserves the judgment that is coming because of our sin. Don't point the finger at a political party, a political leader, or the Muslim terrorists, or the Federal Reserve, or any of the boogey mans that will be blamed for the crisis.
When Jeremiah prophesied judgment upon Israel for sin, the false prophets promised continued blessing and security. Jeremiah urged repentance, the false prophets urged alliance with Egypt.
Allies can’t save us. Borrowing can’t save us. “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain that build it. Unless Lord keeps the city, the watchman wakes in vain” (Ps. 127).
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord's" the Scripture says, and "Every nation that forgets God will be turned into hell." America, sooner or later, will face national judgment for our national sin.
The Christians who obeyed Jesus' admonition to get out of the Jerusalem were saved because of their faith and obedience to God. Their children were free because their parents believed and obeyed. It was almost four decades from Jesus' warning until it came to pass. Even if judgment on our country doesn't come in our lifetime, we must
be like Jonadab who prepared his children for the judgment that the prophet foretold, and several generations later, they were still following Jonadab’s instructions and were able to escape the promised judgment. We must prepare our children too. Don't get shut out of God's blessing because your lamps ran out of oil, and you weren't prepared.
Full article and links to more info:
http://www.newswithviews.com/Johnston/patrick131.htm
Government Gone Wild
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtVbUmcQSuk&feature=player_embedded
The Day the Dollar Died
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N8gJSMoOJc&feature=pyv&ad=6050032234&kw=obama
The End of Liberty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQv-sdMCClQ&feature=relmfu
Monday, August 8, 2011
The Green Thing
A cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."
The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."
He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.
But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.
But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.
Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.
Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.
In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.
When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.
Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.
But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.
We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.
We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.
But we didn't have the green thing back then.
Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service.
We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.
But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author: I’m Preparing for Economic Collapse
Mr. Kyosaki suggests investing in precious metals, buying a gun and storing food, in a cautious “rather be safe than sorry” mindset.
“Remember this, the police cannot prevent a crime, only you can do that,” he adds. “They can only investigate it after you’re dead.”
He also suggests investing wisely and organizing your fiscal house. For example, he cautions that if the credit card systems shut down, the world shuts down.
“If I’m preparing for the worst, there is a good chance it won’t happen.”
Mr. Kyosaki is best known for authoring the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series and has sold over 26 million books. He has previously spoken in regards to what he calls “the conspiracy of the rich,” and the new rules of money.
Full article:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rich-dad-poor-dad-author-im-preparing-for-economic-collapse/
“Remember this, the police cannot prevent a crime, only you can do that,” he adds. “They can only investigate it after you’re dead.”
He also suggests investing wisely and organizing your fiscal house. For example, he cautions that if the credit card systems shut down, the world shuts down.
“If I’m preparing for the worst, there is a good chance it won’t happen.”
Mr. Kyosaki is best known for authoring the “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” series and has sold over 26 million books. He has previously spoken in regards to what he calls “the conspiracy of the rich,” and the new rules of money.
Full article:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rich-dad-poor-dad-author-im-preparing-for-economic-collapse/
Friday, June 24, 2011
YOU CAN DIG YOUR OWN WELL
You can drill your own shallow water well using PVC and water hoses. It is a cheap and effective way to dig your own shallow water well. Well drilling or well boring isn't just for the pros. Digging a water well yourself is both interesting and fun. Having your own water well can save you a lot of money.
http://www.drillyourownwell.com/
http://www.drillyourownwell.com/
Sunflowers to clean up Fukushima's radioactive soil
JAPANESE researchers who study space agriculture believe growing sunflowers will remove radioactive caesium from contaminated soil around the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, and are planning a project to plant as many of the yellow flowers as possible this year.
They have invited people to sow sunflower seeds near the Fukushima Prefecture power station, hoping the sunflower will become a symbol of recovery in the areas affected by the nuclear crisis.
After the sunflowers are harvested, they will be decomposed with bacteria, according to a plan by a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency group led by Professor Masamichi Yamashita. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, sunflowers and rape blossoms were used to decontaminate soil in Ukraine. Radioactive caesium is similar to kalium, a commonly used fertiliser. If kalium is not present, sunflowers will absorb caesium instead.
If the harvested sunflowers are disposed of by burning them, radioactive caesium could be dispersed through smoke, which is why the researchers are considering using hyperthermophilic aerobic bacteria - used to produce compost - to decompose the plants. The decomposing process will reduce the sunflowers to about 1 per cent of their previous volume, which will slash the amount of radioactive waste that needs to be dealt with.
The group has gathered about 300kg of sunflower seeds and has also asked Thailand, a major producer of sunflower seeds, for cooperation in the project. They also plan to ask high schools in and near the 30km zone around the Fukushima plant to grow sunflowers on their school grounds.
'We're still in the process of planning for the decomposition facility and some other things. Looking toward the autumn harvest, we'd like as many people as possible to join the project,' Prof Yamashita said. -- THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN
Full article:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_660241.html
They have invited people to sow sunflower seeds near the Fukushima Prefecture power station, hoping the sunflower will become a symbol of recovery in the areas affected by the nuclear crisis.
After the sunflowers are harvested, they will be decomposed with bacteria, according to a plan by a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency group led by Professor Masamichi Yamashita. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, sunflowers and rape blossoms were used to decontaminate soil in Ukraine. Radioactive caesium is similar to kalium, a commonly used fertiliser. If kalium is not present, sunflowers will absorb caesium instead.
If the harvested sunflowers are disposed of by burning them, radioactive caesium could be dispersed through smoke, which is why the researchers are considering using hyperthermophilic aerobic bacteria - used to produce compost - to decompose the plants. The decomposing process will reduce the sunflowers to about 1 per cent of their previous volume, which will slash the amount of radioactive waste that needs to be dealt with.
The group has gathered about 300kg of sunflower seeds and has also asked Thailand, a major producer of sunflower seeds, for cooperation in the project. They also plan to ask high schools in and near the 30km zone around the Fukushima plant to grow sunflowers on their school grounds.
'We're still in the process of planning for the decomposition facility and some other things. Looking toward the autumn harvest, we'd like as many people as possible to join the project,' Prof Yamashita said. -- THE YOMIURI SHIMBUN/ANN
Full article:
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_660241.html
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