As if 2022 wasn’t crazy enough, now it appears that we could be on the verge of another very deadly global pandemic.  As I write this, there are now 204 confirmed, probable or suspected cases of monkeypox in 17 different nations around the world.  By the time you read this, that total will probably be even higher.  In fact, the World Health Organization is specifically warning us to expect more cases.  Needless to say, this new outbreak has spawned a lot of really bizarre theories.  Some of these theories will end up being proven false, but at least some of these theories are likely to turn out to be accurate.  There is still so much we don’t know, but it certainly appears that this pandemic has the potential to become another major global crisis.

Let me start with the latest breaking news.  Just a little while ago, officials in Florida announced that there is a probable case of the monkeypox in Florida…

Health officials are investigating the state’s first presumptive positive case of monkeypox in South Florida.

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County announced Sunday that it and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are conducting epidemiological investigations to determine any possible exposures or offer post-exposure treatment.

If confirmed, it would be the third official case in the United States.  Already, there has been a confirmed case in Massachusetts and a confirmed case in New York.

As I discussed last week, monkeypox does not normally spread easily from person to person.

So something really strange seems to be going on.

At the World Health Organization, they have come up with a theory that monkeypox is being spread by sexual activity…

“What seems to be happening now is that it has got into the population as a sexual form, as a genital form, and is being spread as are sexually transmitted infections, which has amplified its transmission around the world,” WHO official David Heymann, an infectious disease specialist, told Reuters.

Of course sexual activity is not the only way that monkeypox can be spread.

Officials at the WHO need to make that very clear.

But so far authorities have identified two “superspreader events” which seem to have been catalysts for this global outbreak.  One was a pride festival in the Canary Islands…

The Canaria Pride festival, held in the town of Maspalomas between May 5 and 15, has become a hotspot for the monkeypox outbreak, reports El País.

The massive party was attended by over 80,000 people, including three Italian men who later tested positive for the virus.

A health source told the newspaper: “Among the 30 or so diagnosed in Madrid, there are several who attended the event, although it is not yet possible to know if one of them is patient zero of this outbreak or if they all got infected there.”

And the other was a fetish festival in Antwerp, Belgium…

Many of the patients who have come forward so far are gay men and Belgium’s three confirmed cases of monkeypox have been linked to a large-scale fetish festival in the port city of Antwerp. Kuipers said in his briefing that while a notable number of men who have sex with men are among the patients the virus is ‘not confined to them’. The virus can be spread via mucus membranes in the mouth, nose and eyes or via open wounds.

As we move into the summer months, the WHO is warning that similar events could cause the outbreak to accelerate even more…

Now the World Health Organization is warning that summer festivals and mass gatherings could accelerate the spread of monkeypox.

“As we enter the summer season in the European region, with mass gatherings, festivals and parties, I am concerned that transmission could accelerate, as the cases currently being detected are among those engaging in sexual activity, and the symptoms are unfamiliar to many,” said Dr Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe.

But even if health authorities do a great job of explaining the dangers, will people avoid engaging in high risk activities?

Of course not.

Another very interesting thing that has come to light is the fact that an international biosecurity conference that was held in Munich in March 2021 actually simulated the type of scenario that we are facing now…

Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May 2022—just one year after an international biosecurity conference in Munich held a simulation of a “global pandemic involving an unusual strain of Monkeypox” beginning in mid-May 2022.

When I first heard about it, I thought that this was rather odd.  You can find an article about this simulation that was published last November by one of the participating organizations right here.

According to that article, leaders from four different continents were involved in the exercise…

In March 2021, NTI partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats. The exercise examined gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness architectures—exploring opportunities to improve prevention and response capabilities for high-consequence biological events. Participants included 19 senior leaders and experts from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe with decades of combined experience in public health, biotechnology industry, international security, and philanthropy.

And as you can see below, their simulation envisioned that there would be a monkeypox outbreak right in the middle of May 2022…

So is all of this just some sort of really bizarre coincidence?

Hopefully we will eventually get some answers.

Meanwhile, there has been some speculation that the strain of the monkeypox that is now circulating was originally developed in a lab.

ECDC source tells me that the preliminary analysis of monkeypox indicates that it is “a third lab strain with unknown characteristics” and that there is chatter about this being somehow related to Moscow’s charges against U.S. biological activities in Ukraine.

— Dr. Benjamin Braddock (@GraduatedBen) May 21, 2022

If this is even remotely close to the truth, we should all be deeply alarmed.

As I have repeatedly warned, scientists all over the globe are playing around with the deadliest bugs on the entire planet.

In many of those cases, they intend to make them even deadlier.

It is very foolish to conduct such research, but they are doing it anyway.

Speaking of foolish research, we have also learned that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology have apparently “assembled a monkeypox virus genome”…

The Wuhan Institute of Virology assembled a monkeypox virus genome, allowing the virus to be identified through PCR tests, using a method researchers flagged for potentially creating a “contagious pathogen,” The National Pulse can reveal.

The study was first published in February 2022, just months before the latest international outbreak of monkeypox cases which appear to have now reached the United States.

The paper, which was authored by nine Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers and published in the lab’s quarterly scientific journal Virologica Sinica, also follows the wide-scale use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to identify COVID-19-positive individuals.

Everything that I have shared with you so far is really weird.

But this story gets even weirder.

It turns out that the U.S. has just spent 119 million dollars on vaccines that would be used during a monkeypox pandemic…

Following confirmation that monkeypox has made its way to the U.S., the government ordered millions of doses of a vaccine that protects against the virus.

Bavarian Nordic, the biotech company that makes the vaccine, has announced a $119 million order placed by the U.S., with the option to buy $180 million more if it wants. Should that second option be exercised, it would work out to approximately 13 million doses.

If monkeypox is not a serious threat, why would our leaders spend so much money on these vaccines?

My hope is that this outbreak fizzles out quickly, because nobody wants another global pandemic.

It hurts my head just to imagine more lockdowns, more restrictions, more masks, more vaccines and more mandates.

But I am definitely concerned that this could become something really, really big.  In fact, those that follow my work on a regular basis know that I have been watching for this exact type of scenario for a couple of years.

As I keep warning, we have entered an era when great pestilences will become quite common.

Scientists are “playing God” in secretive labs all over the planet, and they think that there will never be any serious consequences.

But some of their deadly bugs inevitably escape from lab environments one way or another, and one of these days that could result in a pandemic that kills a substantial percentage of the global population.

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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 […]

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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.

2022 will see the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII (and it’ll probably be much worse)

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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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…

How The Body Generates/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:

• Radiation – The body naturally radiates thermal heat. And this electromagnetic radiation moves from hot to cold out of your body.
• Respiration – The air inside your body is warm, and as you exhale, it’s lost.
• Evaporation – As we sweat, our body’s heat is vaporized.
• Conduction – Conduction is the heat transfer from direct contact with another object. The transfer will continue until there the two temperatures are in balance.
• Convection – As air or water moves across our bodies, it draws warm air away, and cooler air replaces it.

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.

Reducing Heat Loss

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.

The Ultimate List Of Indoor Heaters That Don’t Require Electricity

Your Own Body

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.

Preserving

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.

Generating

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.

Eating

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.

Sun Radiation

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:

• power stations
• solar chargers
• solar refrigerators

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

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

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:

• Down Filled – Mature birds have the warmest fill.
• 100% Wool – This comes from sheep, and it’s evolved to keep them warm.
• Fleece- Made of synthetic material to mimic wool.
• Mylar – This is space-age aluminum and acts as a reflector for body heat.

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.

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.

Warmer Packs / Hand Warmers

Several manufacturers make portable body warmer packs, including:

• Hot Hands
• Grabber
• Heat Factory

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.

There are also portable hand warmers like the:

• Zippo 12-hour hand warmer
• OCOOPA hand warmers

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.

Soap Stone

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.

Non-electric Heater Options

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:

Kerosene

These heaters use kerosene liquid to heat quickly. And can provide either radiant or convection heat.

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.

Propane

Propane heaters come in various sizes and use refillable tanks. They come in canister sizes ranging from16 ounces to 20-pound tanks in size.

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.

Natural Gas

Natural gas heaters work like propane heaters. But instead of a refillable tank, you can attach the natural gas line from your home.

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 Heaters

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 also get biofuel reusable fuel cans for portable heating on the go or in an emergency. They can heat food and provide some warmth, and they are very affordable and portable.

You can even refill them.

Every prepper should have these by the stack and in storage for an emergency.

Butane Heaters

Small portable butane heaters can get you through an emergency power grid interruption. They provide some warmth and the ability to do some rudimentary cooking.

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.

Solar Heaters

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.

Fireplace and Wood Stove

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.

A wood stove is much better for heating!

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!

Backup Generators

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:

• Best Portable Solar Generators That Will Make You An Emergency Hero
• 8 Best Camping Generator [With Video Reviews] On The Market Today
• Bluetti AC200P Review: REAL WORLD Tests For Emergencies & Camping
• 10 Best Hand Crank Generators & Pedal Crank Generators For Black Outs

Wind Power

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.

Final Thoughts

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.

Prepare, Adapt, & Overcome,

“Just In Case” Jack

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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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