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If you are a prepper or survivalist, keeping binoculars with you is a must. Read the article to understand more about binoculars and use them more frequently. When preparing for any survival situation, binoculars might not be often found on your equipment list. However, you need to seriously consider keeping one around as they are […]
This article was originally published by Ethan Huff at Natural News.
David Beasley, the current head of the United Nations World Food Programme, is warning that a perfect storm of global economic collapse is rapidly forming.
Extreme weather, war, the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19), and financial failure are all simultaneously setting the stage for a “war-fueled” crisis of biblical proportions.
“If people can’t feed their children and their families, then the politics unsettles,” Beasley told CNN during a recent conference. (Related: India, the world’s second-largest wheat exporter, just cut off all wheat exports.)
The UN itself is now having to ration its food supplies due to high prices and supply disruptions. This is causing millions of people who rely on this sustenance to suffer.
“If we’re not there with a safety net program, then the political extremists or whatever the case may be, will exploit that,” Beasley said, noting that many hungry children are suffering.
“Next thing you know, you’ve got riots, famine, destabilization, and then mass migration by necessity.”
The biggest problem this year, according to Beasley, is food prices. Next year, it will morph into a food availability problem as supplies run dry due to various factors.
“In 2023, you’re going to have a food shortage problem,” Beasley says.
The entire world is feeling the pain of all this, but poorer countries are feeling it the worst. Beasley says that many African countries are already in a state of social unrest due to a lack of food or food becoming too expensive for families to afford.
“In the United States, some people might buy less Netflix, but you have enough money to buy the food you need,” he says. “It’s going to be tough on people, but nothing compared to Chad, Mali, and Ethiopia.”
Americans on fixed incomes and others on the poorer end of the economic spectrum are also facing tough times at the grocery store as well as at the gas pump. If things are already this bad here, imagine how they are elsewhere?
“You can imagine what the heck is happening in places like Chad, Malawi, and DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo),” Beasley says.
The war in Syria and the Arab Spring uprising in 2011 were both preceded by food inflation and supply issues. However, conditions now are already much, much worse with no end in sight.
Back in January, the UN warned that 2022 would face a humanitarian crisis not seen since World War II. It is already shaping up to be much worse than that, possibly resulting in World War III.
The UN said this before Russia invaded Ukraine, by the way, which makes the situation even more precarious.
Global trade is currently in the process of shutting down, it would seem. And with Ukraine being the “breadbasket” of Europe, the food crisis is absolutely going to get worse as the year progresses.
Under normal circumstances, Ukraine grows enough food to feed about 400 million people. With exports now cut off, many will starve.
“That’s pretty much going to be out of the equation for many, many months,” Beasley says about Ukraine’s now-shuttered food exports.
Critical Black Sea ports are also now offline because of the conflict, which is physically preventing goods from traveling to where they need to be.
“It’s going to be so much worse than you think,” Beasley stated ominously during his speech.
Billionaires could help the situation if they were not so greedy, Beasley added.
“I just need two days of your net worth increase,” he says to the upper crust. “Is that too much to ask?”
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This article was originally published by John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute.
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech.”—Benjamin Franklin
Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalog, and censor speech.
Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting your freedoms end up expanding the government’s powers.
In the wake of a mass shooting in Buffalo, NY, carried out by an 18-year-old gunman in military gear allegedly motivated by fears that the white race is in danger of being replaced, there have been renewed calls for social media monitoring, censorship of flagged content that could be construed as dangerous or hateful, and limitations on free speech activities, particularly online.
As expected, those who want safety at all costs will clamor for more gun control measures (if not an outright ban on weapons for non-military, non-police personnel), widespread mental health screening of the general population and greater scrutiny of military veterans, more threat assessments and behavioral sensing warnings, more surveillance cameras with facial recognition capabilities, more “See Something, Say Something” programs aimed at turning Americans into snitches and spies, more metal detectors and whole-body imaging devices at soft targets, more roaming squads of militarized police empowered to do random bag searches, more fusion centers to centralize and disseminate information to law enforcement agencies, and more surveillance of what Americans say and do, where they go, what they buy and how they spend their time.
All of these measures play into the government’s hands.
As we have learned the hard way, the phantom promise of safety in exchange for restricted or regulated liberty is a false, misguided doctrine that serves only to give the government greater authority to crack down, lockdown, and institute even more totalitarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.
Add the Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” to that mix, empower it to monitor online activity and police so-called “disinformation,” and you have the makings of a restructuring of reality straight out of Orwell’s 1984, where the Ministry of Truth polices speech and ensures that facts conform to whatever version of reality the government propagandists embrace.
After all, it’s a slippery slope from censoring so-called illegitimate ideas to silencing the truth.
Eventually, as George Orwell predicted, telling the truth will become a revolutionary act.
If the government can control speech, it can control thought and, in turn, it can control the minds of the citizenry.
It’s been a long time since free speech was actually free.
On paper—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—we are technically free to speak.
In reality, however, we are only as free to speak as a government official—or corporate entities such as Facebook, Google or YouTube—may allow.
That’s not a whole lot of freedom, especially if you’re inclined to voice opinions that may be construed as conspiratorial or dangerous.
This steady, pervasive censorship creep clothed in tyrannical self-righteousness and inflicted on us by technological behemoths (both corporate and governmental) is technofascism, and it does not tolerate dissent.
These internet censors are not acting in our best interests to protect us from dangerous, disinformation campaigns. They’re laying the groundwork now to preempt any “dangerous” ideas that might challenge the power elite’s stranglehold over our lives.
The internet, hailed as a super-information highway, is increasingly becoming the police state’s secret weapon. This “policing of the mind” is exactly the danger author Jim Keith warned about when he predicted that “information and communication sources are gradually being linked together into a single computerized network, providing an opportunity for unheralded control of what will be broadcast, what will be said, and ultimately what will be thought.”
What we are witnessing is the modern-day equivalent of book burning which involves doing away with dangerous ideas—legitimate or not—and the people who espouse them.
Where we stand now is at the juncture of OldSpeak (where words have meanings, and ideas can be dangerous) and Newspeak (where only that which is “safe” and “accepted” by the majority is permitted). The power elite has made their intentions clear: they will pursue and prosecute any and all words, thoughts, and expressions that challenge their authority.
Having been reduced to a cowering citizenry—mute in the face of elected officials who refuse to represent us, helpless in the face of police brutality, powerless in the face of militarized tactics and technology that treat us like enemy combatants on a battlefield, and naked in the face of government surveillance that sees and hears all—we have nowhere left to go and nothing left to say that cannot be misconstrued and used to muzzle us.
Yet what a lot of people fail to understand, however, is that it’s not just what you say or do that is being monitored, but how you think that is being tracked and targeted.
We’ve already seen this play out on the state and federal level with hate crime legislation that cracks down on so-called “hateful” thoughts and expression, encourages self-censoring and reduces free debate on various subject matters.
With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a totalitarian society characterized by government censorship, violence, corruption, hypocrisy, and intolerance, all packaged for our supposed benefit in the Orwellian doublespeak of national security, tolerance, and so-called “government speech.”
Little by little, Americans have been conditioned to accept routine incursions on their freedoms.
This is how oppression becomes systemic, what is referred to as creeping normality, or death by a thousand cuts.
It’s a concept invoked by Pulitzer Prize-winning scientist Jared Diamond to describe how major changes if implemented slowly in small stages over time, can be accepted as normal without the shock and resistance that might greet a sudden upheaval.
Diamond’s concerns related to Easter Island’s now-vanished civilization and the societal decline and environmental degradation that contributed to it, but it’s a powerful analogy for the steady erosion of our freedoms and decline of our country right under our noses.
As Diamond explains, “In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism… Why didn’t they look around, realize what they were doing, and stop before it was too late? What were they thinking when they cut down the last palm tree?”
His answer: “I suspect that the disaster happened not with a bang but with a whimper.”
Much like America’s own colonists, Easter Island’s early colonists discovered a new world—“a pristine paradise”—teeming with life. Yet almost 2000 years after its first settlers arrived, Easter Island was reduced to a barren graveyard by a populace so focused on their immediate needs that they failed to preserve paradise for future generations.
The same could be said of America today: it, too, is being reduced to a barren graveyard by a populace so focused on their immediate needs that they are failing to preserve freedom for future generations.
In Easter Island’s case, as Diamond speculates:
“The forest…vanished slowly, over decades. Perhaps war interrupted the moving teams; perhaps by the time the carvers had finished their work, the last rope snapped. In the meantime, any islander who tried to warn about the dangers of progressive deforestation would have been overridden by vested interests of carvers, bureaucrats, and chiefs, whose jobs depended on continued deforestation… The changes in forest cover from year to year would have been hard to detect… Only older people, recollecting their childhoods decades earlier, could have recognized a difference. Gradually trees became fewer, smaller, and less important. By the time the last fruit-bearing adult palm tree was cut, palms had long since ceased to be of economic significance. That left only smaller and smaller palm saplings to clear each year, along with other bushes and treelets. No one would have noticed the felling of the last small palm.”
Sound painfully familiar yet?
We’ve already torn down the rich forest of liberties established by our founders. It has vanished slowly, over the decades. Those who warned against the dangers posed by too many laws, invasive surveillance, militarized police, SWAT team raids and the like have been silenced and ignored. They stopped teaching about freedom in the schools. Few Americans know their history. And even fewer seem to care that their fellow Americans are being jailed, muzzled, shot, tasered, and treated as if they have no rights at all.
The erosion of our freedoms happened so incrementally, no one seemed to notice. Only the older generations, remembering what true freedom was like, recognized the difference. Gradually, the freedoms enjoyed by the citizenry became fewer, smaller, and less important. By the time the last freedom falls, no one will know the difference.
This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls: with a thousand cuts, each one justified or ignored or shrugged over as inconsequential enough by itself to bother, but they add up.
Each cut, each attempt to undermine our freedoms, each loss of some critical right—to think freely, to assemble, to speak without fear of being shamed or censored, to raise our children as we see fit, to worship or not worship as our conscience dictates, to eat what we want and love who we want, to live as we want—they add up to an immeasurable failure on the part of each and every one of us to stop the descent down that slippery slope.
We are on that downward slope now.
The contagion of fear that has been spread with the help of government agencies, corporations, and the power elite is poisoning the well, whitewashing our history, turning citizen against citizen, and stripping us of our rights.
America is approaching another reckoning right now, one that will pit our commitment to freedom principles against a level of fear-mongering that is being used to wreak havoc on everything in its path.
Yet as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, while we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle, a tsunami approaches.
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You walk into your local grocery store and immediately see an intense discussion going on. There is a middle-aged man arguing with two older women. The manager seems to be on his way over and you can now hear the discussion. As you approach you see a man practicing open carry. He has an AR-15 slung across his back as well as a revolver in an outside-the-waistband holster. Your psychic powers kick in because you already know what the fuss is about. You clearly hear the manager now as he tells the man he will have to leave. As he is stomping out the door, he shouts back at the group, “It’s my constitutional right!” So how do we address this in the firearms community?
There was a time when open carry was done out of necessity. In the Old West for example, it was difficult to conceal carry two Colt revolvers. Today however, open carry is more of a political and cultural statement than it is a necessity. Mechanically, open carry does present some advantages should a threat arise. You will have easy and quick access to your weapon. There is a reason police officers carry their duty pistol on their hip. However open carry does present some pitfalls as well.
First is that you are openly announcing that you are armed. A concealed handgun, conversely, announces nothing to a potential foe. You walk into the Quickie Mart at 1:00 am to get milk, the crack head getting ready to rob the place has seen you. While most would see this as a deterrent, it rarely is. If they are truly a hardened criminal, they will more than likely just walk up and shoot you in the back of the head as you lean into the cooler to get your milk. You won’t know because the criminal is carrying concealed. This is especially true with people carrying rifles. Most times when I see this, the rifles are slung across their back.
My question is, just how fast do you think you will be able to bring that gun into a quickly developing fight? The last tactical downside is that almost every single person I see open carrying is using a standard Kydex holster or worse. There is no additional retention, which puts it up for grabs should you get into a physical altercation.
The other thing to consider is its effect on the people you encounter. The debate often turns heated right here. The primary argument thrown out there is. “It’s my Constitutional right.” Actually, it’s not. The United States Constitution does not say at any point that you are allowed to or should open carry. State law gets even tricker. And some places, like the District of Columbia or New York City, will proverbially nail you to the wall for carrying of firearms. Now, it certainly doesn’t forbid it obviously, but to use this as a rally cry diminishes our fight to preserve the 2nd Amendment.
The gun-owning portion of the U.S. population is growing every day. But there are still a large number of people that are on the fence about it. They are not anti-gun, but they have not joined the team yet. These people in most cases have very little experience with guns and are nervous when they see them. This is why there are sometimes events like our opening story.
What’s worse though, are the times when people simply don’t say anything. They will develop an opinion though and it is rarely a positive one. Some will see Johnny Cool open carrying a rifle and it makes them nervous. They then throw the entire gun owning community into this framework and like that they begin to develop anti-gun sentiment. That’s how we create gun control advocates. Hell, even I turn on my internal alarm when I see someone open carrying. I have no idea who you are or what your intentions may be. This is especially true when I see the person has absolutely no idea of what they are doing.
Open carry is a very emotional issue with firm beliefs on both sides of the fence. I actively discourage open carry in regular everyday settings. The downside offsets any perceived benefits. For those screaming at your computer right now about “ma’ rights,” I would suggest that you look at the bigger picture and how it affects the perception of gun owners in America. We must all work together not only to preserve the 2nd Amendment, but to expand the number of people that feel the same way.
This installment of Mr. Manners seemed to really strike a chord. Tons of readers chimed in, across the Ballistic Magazine social media pages. Responses ranged from some version of “2A All the Way!” to “Come on man, be smart.” For some, openly carrying handguns, openly carrying long guns, a visible handgun in public – they’re all means to legally carry a gun. But for others, anyone outside of law enforcement carrying loaded firearms in public makes them nervous. Two sides to a very hot-button coin.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on Open Carry, and we appreciate all the great thoughtful responses. Here are a few good ones via Twitter:
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If you’ve ever wondered what’s on psychopath Hunter Biden’s laptop, you can at least have a look at his emails. Over 120,000 emails have been uploaded to a searchable database.
You may want to jump on this quickly, however, the ruling class may not like this information being public for very long.
A former Trump White House staffer has uploaded more than 120,000 emails found on Hunter Biden’s abandoned laptop to a searchable database this week, which can be found at the (slowly loading) website: BidenLaptopEmails.com. In addition to searching, visitors can download the emails as well.
According to a report by ZeroHedge, the website was set up by former Peter Navarro aide Garrett Ziegler, who worked in the Trump administration Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, the emails contain infamous hits such as the “10 for the big guy,” in which Hunter Biden’s business partner James Gillar suggested he should hold 10% of a multi-million-dollar deal with the Chinese. Ziegler posted the emails through his organization, Marco Polo.
Another email in the database, previously published by DailyMail.com, shows Hunter describing an extraordinary apparent quid pro quo with a Mexican billionaire’s son, outlining how he got him into the White House and inauguration, and thanking him for visits to his villa.
Some messages did not appear to be included in the database. One email published by DailyMail.com shows Hunter inviting his foreign business partners and associates to a 2015 dinner at Washington DC restaurant Café Milano.
In the email he reveals that his father will secretly be joining – and says that the dinner is ‘ostensibly to discuss food security’. The White House at first denied the then-vice president was there, but eventually admitted it when photographs emerged from the event.-Daily Mail
“Here are the 128k emails from the Biden Laptop, which is a modern Rosetta Stone of white and blue-collar crime under the patina of “the Delaware Way,”” reads the website, referring to a term frequently used by Joe Biden. “Prior to the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a number of ancient languages were mere gibberish and hash marks. Similarly, the emails on the Biden Laptop illuminated previously convoluted webs of the people you see leading the charge for global governance; truly, the emails can be considered a translation tool for Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering.”
Have a look if you’d like, but we wouldn’t expect this website to stay up long. It has been noted that the uploading speed is incredibly slow, so it could take a while to even get any information. But if we ever want to be free, we need to be able to understand how those who think they have the right to be masters over others perceive the world we share.
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Today we’re giving you a comprehensive guide on the best indoor heaters that don’t require electricity.
OR how to keep you and your family warm when there’s a major power outage.
Because having an emergency heat is key to living a resilient life.
Every responsible adult should have a plan B for heat without electricity. It can save you and your family’s life in a worst-case scenario.
There are many different options for using a heater without electricity. And we are going to cover ALL your options. Prices range from cheap to expensive – from “just warm enough to survive” to “hot enough to thrive.”
Ok, before diving into all the different non-electric heater options, you first must understand how the body generates and loses heat…
Have you ever experienced a power outage in the middle of winter? It’s no summer picnic, that’s for sure. You start losing copious amounts of body heat fast through:
Note: If your clothes are wet, the heat loss goes up exponentially. So avoid being wet, in a cold-weather emergency, which includes profuse sweating.
Ok, now that you know how your body loses heat, let’s get into the first tasks in an emergency. Reducing heat loss due to unnecessary leakage.
First things first, when in a power outage, reducing heat loss is as important as gaining heat. You can’t allow heat to escape from your home and certainly not from your body.
Cracks and holes in your house are where heat escapes. And an open window is like shoveling hot coals into the snow. It’s wasted energy when you don’t have any to spare.
Go around and make your home airtight. Use towels along the bottom of doors if you have to. You must preserve any heat that you do have.
Let’s start with your meat suit.
Your body is a fantastic machine that generates heat as it operates. You need to preserve it at all costs. You also need to generate more heat.
Before thinking of generating, persevere what you make.
Bundle up with extra layers of clothing like sweatpants, socks, and sweaters. Hats and gloves are essential too. Have extra blankets on the bed and ones for the couch. Duvets keep the heat in.
Physical activities like working out or briskly walking around can generate heat. So can frontier lifestyle activities such as chopping firewood or hauling water.
Heck, wrestling with the kids or intimacy with a partner will generate copious amounts of heat as well. Combined body heat is an effective way to share yourself by cozying up in a sleeping bag.
This works with ANYONE. But it is much less awkward with those you love (like your kids, spouse, or pet).
Just remember: Avoid working out so hard that you end up drenched in sweat. The wet body and damp clothes can quickly become counterproductive in the frigid cold.
Who’d have thought filling your face could keep you warm?
Digesting food raises your body temperature through thermogenesis. So eat foods high in carbs, protein, and healthy fats. Add some extra spice to sweat from the inside.
Hot drinks help too but need an external source of heat to make.
The sun is your friend and is among the integral alternative heat sources for power outages.
While the sun is out, take advantage of its thermal power during the day. How? By opening up curtains and blinds, so it radiates inside the home.
This is when you should charge solar-powered devices—equipment like:
While the sun is shining, open your curtains and let the sun’s rays come through your windows. It’s one FREE way to heat a room without electricity.
Another “trick’ is to fill up all your plastic water bottles and leave them in the direct light. Then bring them inside after the sun fades so they can release that heat slowly over time.
This “trick” is even more effective for larger vessels like barrels. Heck, you could even invest in a water wall that passively absorbs the heat during the day and releases it at night.
Stones can also retain the heat from the sun if they are adequately insulated. Wrap hot rocks in a towel and put them at the end of your bed to keep you warm while sleeping.
The sun is free so take full advantage of it.
Candles are natural nonelectric heaters that you can buy in bulk or make your own from your beehives. They give you two essential sources for survival; heat and light.
A candle is an essential prepper item you should add to your emergency stockpile. As well as stored in abundance at your home, bug out location, and DIY bunker.
Know this… A candle isn’t going to heat your entire house or cook a steak.
Having said that, any emergency heating is going to help. And you can light up a bunch of candles to contribute to the solution. Just be safe when using candles as they are an open flame.
Beeswax candles give off a pleasant scent and release negative ions in the room to clear the air. Lovely smells can become more important the longer you hunker down inside.
Coconut wax is a great option. It’s a highly renewable, non-toxic wax and burns cleaner and longer than other wax candles.
Tea candles are handy to stack together to form a more concentrated heat zone. And can be safely used with various holders.
You can also build your own candle heater with tea candles and a couple of clay pots.
Check out our article on How To Build A Clay Pot Candle Heater and Do They Really Work? for more info.
Blankets are a bit of a no-brainer, but most people only have one blanket per bed in their homes. This strategy is a mistake because when the power grids are down, you need extra blankets for beds, couches and to keep pets warm.
But the truth about blankets is that they don’t produce any heat by themselves. That’s your body’s job.
Instead, a good blanket will trap the heat. There are different materials used in making blankets, and the best for keeping warm are:
My favorite option is the Mylar Blankets (like the Tact Bivvy).
Why? Because they are lightweight and trap nearly all the heat your body can generate. Making them more efficient than even the best fabric blanket money can buy.
I tested a TACT Bivvy Mylar blanket in frigid temps in my backyard and after only a few minutes, I was toasty warm inside.
Outside Temp / Inside Blanket
Honestly, I think EVERYONE should put a TACT Bivvy in their glove boxes for winter car emergencies.
AND they’re also a very cheap way to stay warm during a winter power outage as well!
Check out our article on 9 Best Mylar Space Blankets On The Market Today for more info.
They are great for giving you fast, long-lasting warmth.
And these devices can slip inside your gloves, in your pockets, and shoes. Or with some, you can even have adhesive to stick to your back, shoulders, or anywhere else you need them.
Different chemicals inside them react when shaken or exposed to air to produce heat. Some have iron powder or sodium acetate to make a thermal reaction. But they all are safe to use for all members of the family.
You should always have these emergency heater packs on hand. They’re crucial for outdoor winter activities and emergencies. And they’re an excellent backup if the electricity stops working in your home.
They can be charged and ready for use when needed.
Check out our article on 9 Best Hand Warmers For Cold Weather Emergencies for more info.
Soapstone is a natural type of metamorphic rock made primarily of talc. And people have been using it for carving material for thousands of years. Why? Because it’s relatively soft. Some grades feel like soap, and that’s how it got its name.
Besides its carving ability, soapstone is a fantastic heat retainer. It quickly absorbs heat and will radiate it back out slowly for several hours. Basalt also works similarly.
Make your own soapstone bed warmer. First, drill two holes in the top and bend some sturdy wire to make a pail-type handle.
Then you can hang it near the fire or even in a window to absorb heat during the day. At night, drag it up and down your bed and wrap it in a towel to stay at the bottom, underneath the blankets.
This setup will keep you toasty all night.
If you want to heat an entire room without electricity, you’ll need something a little bigger. Several fuel-based heaters do everything from cooking to heating.
They use radiant heat or convection heat and use these different fuels:
The convection type carries fuel at the base with a combustible chamber. This chamber ignites and heats in all directions through a circular design.
Radiant heaters send their heat straight out using a reflector or blower.
You can find kerosene at most home improvement stores. And they use a soaked wick with an ignition starter or a burn chamber where you use a match to light the wick.
Smaller units are better indoors and work well moving from room to room. Bigger units usually are left stationary for safety with the tank left outside.
The BLUU propane heater for outdoor and indoor use is perfect for your emergency heat.
Or this simple heater mounts to the top of a propane tank.
Check out our article Kerosene vs Propane Heaters – The Best Solution For Survival for more information.
That is IF it’s still available in your home after a power outage.
You have to attach it to a fixed gas connection on your home. So it isn’t portable like the propane or kerosene tanks, but you do have a steady supply of fuel.
Biofuel is any fuel that comes from living matter. It includes wood, ethanol, methanol, biogas, and biodiesel.
They even have tabletop biogas fireplace heaters that look great and heat your space. They require you to fill up the fuel tank, and it burns for a long time without any fuss.
You can even refill them.
Every prepper should have these by the stack and in storage for an emergency.
Units like this duel butane and propane heater can provide sustainable heat indoors.
Always make sure to have a well-ventilated area when using this type of fuel.
These heaters don’t use combustible fluids. Instead, they get thermal energy from the sun. This device collects energy throughout the day and stores it until needed.
Cold air travels down into the unit and picks up the thermal heat to blow it into your room. They are expensive, but your heat is free once set up.
Wood stoves are the perfect solution to indoor heaters that don’t require electricity. You’re in business as long as you keep your supply of dried and split wood at the ready.
A standard fireplace is best when designed into a house’s structure. And they usually require the professional skills of a bricklayer.
Proper venting, hearth, and mantel are essential components. But your fireplace will mostly radiate heat in the main room. This design is just OK tho because much air will escape out of the house and up through the chimney.
And you can also install them during a build, but it is doable to add at a later date vs. a fireplace. It just takes a protective floor and wall solution and cutting a hole in the wall or roof to bring the stack outside.
An insulated chimney pipe passes through the framing components of a home—that way; there’s no heat touching flammable material.
A properly maintained wood burner set up can burn all night. Thus, providing all the emergency heating you need to survive without electricity.
Note: A wood stove is “THE solution” I choose for my family as a backup non electric heater!
Emergency home heating sometimes needs a powerful generator. A large generator turns fuel and combustion into electrical current to tie into your home.
You can install large units on a concrete pad beside your home. These are ready to provide full power to run everything with the flip of a switch.
A standard “camping” gas generator can be stored until needed for smaller emergency heating. It’s easy to run a few power cords to get vital electric appliances and lights on.
You’ll need to refill with diesel, gas, natural gas, or use a solar unit.
A large solar generator is called a power station and you’ll need to pair this unit with solar panels.
Heck, you could even invest in hand crank or pedal crank generators to power a few personal items during a blackout. Plus, by cranking or pedaling, you’ll generate some of your own heat…
Check out the following articles for more information:
You can similarly harness the power of the wind to solar. Your wind turbine unit can store battery power and then runs some or all of your electrical needs.
If you want to use it to store power for heat, pair it with an electric heater that can plug into the battery system.
Disruption to the power grid requires planning, supplies, and equipment.
The best options include indoor heaters that don’t require electricity. Invest in these various nonelectric heater options, so you’re never left out in the cold.
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More escalation has begun as NATO starts military drills near the Russian border. The large-scale NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) military drills started in Estonia on Monday.
This is going to be seen as an escalation, if not provocation, by the Russian ruling class. The exercise, dubbed “Hedgehog 2022”, is one of the largest in the Baltic nation’s history, according to the military bloc. The drills will involve some 15,000 troops from 14 nations, including both military bloc members and their partners.
According to a report by RT, soldiers from Finland, Sweden, Georgia, and Ukraine are among those that will take part in the exercise, Finnish public broadcaster Yle reported. The drills will include all branches of the armed forces and will involve air, sea, and land exercises, as well as cyber warfare training, according to the broadcaster.
According to a NATO statement, the drills will also see the US Navy Wasp-class landing ship ‘Kearsarge’ take part in the exercises. Both the military bloc and Estonian Defense Forces deputy commander, Major General Veiko-Vello Palm, have denied that the drills just over 60km from the Russian border have anything to do with Moscow’s ongoing military action in Ukraine. –RT
These drills are taking place as both Sweden and Finland have made their determination to join NATO clear. Russia has already vowed to “respond” to the expansion of NATO.
Russia Vows To Respond To NATO Expansion in Finland and Sweden
This is certainly going to escalate tensions in the region.
The exercises in Estonia are, however, just one part of NATO’s large-scale military activities near the Russian border. Another Baltic state, Lithuania, is hosting the ‘Iron Wolf’ exercise, which involves 3,000 NATO troops and 1,000 pieces of military equipment, including Germany’s Leopard 2 tanks.
Two of NATO’s biggest exercises – ‘Defender Europe’ and ‘Swift Response’ – are taking place in Poland and eight other countries, involving 18,000 troops from 20 nations, according to NATO’s statement on Friday.-RT
“Exercises like these show that NATO stands strong and ready to protect our nations and defend against any threat,” the military bloc’s spokesperson, Oana Lungescu, said, adding that the drills “help to remove any room for miscalculation or misunderstanding about our resolve to protect and defend every inch of allied territory.”
Russia continues to assert that NATO’s expansion is a direct threat to their security. A response is likely, and we will monitor this closely as tensions continue to rise.
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If you think that the food and diesel shortages are bad now, then you will be absolutely horrified by what the globe is experiencing by the end of the year. All over the planet, food production is being crippled by an unprecedented confluence of factors. The war in Ukraine, extremely bizarre weather patterns, nightmarish plagues and a historic fertilizer crisis have combined to create a “perfect storm” that isn’t going away any time soon. As a result, the food that won’t be grown in 2022 will become an extremely severe global problem by the end of this calendar year. Global wheat prices have already risen by more than 40 percent since the start of 2022, but this is just the beginning. Meanwhile, we are facing unthinkable diesel fuel shortages in the United States this summer, and as you will see below there are “no plans” to increase refining capacity in this country for the foreseeable future.
If you had told me six months ago that we would be dealing with the worst baby formula shortage in U.S. history in the middle of 2022, I am not sure that I would have believed you.
But that is precisely what we are now facing. One young couple in Florida searched stores in their area for four hours and couldn’t find anything…
When Erik and Kelly Schmidt, both 35, went into a Central Florida Target store this week to buy their usual baby formula, Up & Up Gentle, for their five-month-old twins, they found an empty shelf.
The pair then embarked on a half-day journey in search of formula, any formula, and their quest didn’t end there. “We spent over four hours going to every Target, different Walmarts, different grocery stores, just finding absolutely nothing,” Erik Schmidt said.
Of course the Biden administration has made sure that there is enough baby formula for migrants that are illegally crossing the border, but for millions of ordinary American families this crisis has become a complete and utter nightmare.
One father actually broke down in tears right in the middle of the baby formula aisle in Walmart because things have become so desperate for his family…
Sara Owens, of Florence County, said she was hunting for baby formula for his six-month-old daughter, Namoi, amid a nationwide shortage when she encountered a dad break into tears after driving from store to store looking for his daughter’s brand of formula.
‘As tears continued to stream down his face he said ‘I never thought I would be crying because I can’t find what my child has to have,” Owens wote in the Facebook post that’s been shared more than 180,000 times. ‘My heart broke to 100 pieces on the formula aisle in Walmart.’
Sadly, we shouldn’t expect any improvement any time soon.
As I discussed last week, the Biden administration shut down one of the most important baby formula manufacturing facilities in this country a while ago, and the CEO of Abbott Nutrition says that it will take a few months to get products back on the shelves once the FDA finally allows them to reopen the plant…
Meanwhile, the plant remains closed as the company works to make upgrades to the facility to meet the FDA’s recommendations. Abbott says it can have products from the facility back on store shelves after a few months once the FDA signs off on them doing so.
Needless to say, baby formula is not the only thing in short supply right now. As shortages grow and prices spiral out of control, grocery stores are increasingly becoming prime targets for thieves.
In fact, things have already gotten so bad in the Midwest that one major supermarket chain has decided to post armed guards in their stores…
The shoulder patches say, “A Helpful Smile in Every Aisle,” but the police-style uniforms, complete with belts with holstered taser and possibly handguns, may send a very different message as Hy-Vee deploys a new retail security team in its stores.
The West Des Moines-based supermarket chain will begin introducing its own security force “as part of its ongoing efforts to ensure the health and safety of both its customers and employees,” the company announced in a news release on Dec. 29. The program will roll out throughout 2022, but security teams are already present in some stores.
As I have warned for many years, eventually we will see armed guards in supermarkets and on food delivery trucks all over the nation.
In the months ahead, food production is going to be way below expectations all over the globe. The following summary of what farmers are currently facing comes from Zero Hedge…
Across the world, top wheat-producing regions are experiencing adverse weather conditions that could threaten production. In places like Ukraine, a military invasion by Russia has slashed production significantly. All of this suggests the world is on the cusp of a food crisis.
Droughts, floods, and heatwaves have plagued farmland in the U.S., Europe, India, and China. As for Ukraine, the world’s largest wheat producer, the war could slash production by upwards of a third.
As I have previously detailed, some countries have already decided to ban certain types of agricultural exports as they brace for the coming global food crisis.
And we just learned that India has now decided to ban the export of all wheat…
India, the second-largest producer of wheat, has banned exports of the commodity, due to a risk to its food security.
A Friday notice in the government gazette signed by Santosh Kumar Sarangi, the Director General of Foreign Trade, said that a “sudden spike” in the global prices of wheat was putting India, neighboring and other vulnerable countries at risk.
This is huge.
Supplies of food are getting tighter with each passing week, and this is already starting to spark food riots all over the world.
For example, we witnessed some very emotional protests in Iran last week…
Protests broke out in Iran Thursday after the government cut subsidies for food, sending prices through the roof as authorities brace for more unrest in the following weeks.
In videos shared on social media, protesters can be seen marching through Dezful and Mahshahr in the southwestern province of Khezestan, chanting “Death to Khamenei! Death to Raisi!” referring to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has promised to create jobs, lift sanctions, and rescue the economy.
And in Sri Lanka the citizens are so angry that they are actually burning down the homes of politicians…
Protesters in Sri Lanka have burned down homes belonging to 38 politicians as the crisis-hit country plunged further into chaos, with the government ordering troops to “shoot on sight.”
Police in the island nation said Tuesday that in addition to the destroyed homes, 75 others have been damaged as angry Sri Lankans continue to defy a nationwide curfew to protest against what they say is the government’s mishandling of the country’s worst economic crisis since 1948.
This is just the tip of the iceberg.
Things will get really crazy in the months ahead as global food supples get a whole lot tighter.
Meanwhile, we are being warned that there is likely to be a “diesel fuel shortage on the East Coast” during the months ahead…
The possibility of a diesel fuel shortage is being monitored as diesel fuel prices across the country and in Maryland continue to surpass all-time highs.
According to fuel industry experts, all signs are pointing to a potential diesel fuel shortage on the East Coast that could cripple an already fragile supply chain.
Last week, the price of diesel fuel in the U.S. rose to an all-time record high of $5.62 a gallon, and it is only going to go higher.
The biggest reason why we are facing such a supply crunch right now is because there are “simply too few refineries turning oil into usable fuels”…
From record gasoline prices to higher airfares to fears of diesel rationing ahead, America’s runaway energy market is disquieting both US travelers and the wider economy. But the chief driver isn’t high crude prices or even the rebound in demand: It’s simply too few refineries turning oil into usable fuels.
Surely more refineries are being built to meet the growing demand, right?
Wrong.
Mountains of regulations that have been instituted by our politicians make it extremely difficult to build and operate a new refinery in this country.
As a result, we are being told that “the supply squeeze is only going to get worse” for the foreseeable future…
More than 1 million barrels a day of the country’s oil refining capacity — or about 5% overall — has shut since the beginning of the pandemic. Elsewhere in the world, capacity has shrunk by 2.13 million additional barrels a day, energy consultancy Turner, Mason & Co. estimates. And with no plans to bring new US plants online, even though refiners are reaping record profits, the supply squeeze is only going to get worse.
To a very large degree, we have done this to ourselves.
And as I keep telling my readers, decades of very foolish decisions are starting to catch up with us in a major way.
Our trucks and our trains run on diesel, and so a shortage of diesel will only make our ongoing supply chain crisis even worse.
This nightmare never seems to end, and there will be plenty of pain in the months ahead.
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