Well, I have this to show you… a short documentary video about the use of actual gold and silver in place of inflating currency. I find it most enlightening and heartening that these people in Indonesia are sophisticated enough to frank their own currency instead of losing their wealth to the inflation of fiat currency.  It also makes me feel a tad depressed that the majority of Americans, and most of Europe, aren’t getting this concept down pat. In fact, I think the majority of America and Europe are in for a very rude awakening. http://www.davidicke.com/articles/the-money-scam/37146-gold-dinar-silver-dirham-

Up until fairly recently, both the U.S. and Great Britain made it against the law to own gold bullion. Both thankfully rescinded those insane laws.  The U.S. made it unlawful to own gold bullion back during the Great Depression… they made anyone stupid enough to do so, cash in their gold at $20 an ounce, and once that was done, the gold was revalued  at $30 an ounce. That was a huge difference back then, and a travesty as well.  In fact, I distinctly remember an old Disney movie starring Dean Jones in which the main character discovered that he had a duck that laid solid gold eggs, and the character fretted about being caught with this “bullion” by the authorities. 

I expect some similar attempt to rescind any of our attempts to maintain control over our personal wealth by the NWO types. Obama is already considering imposing a transaction fee on all bank transactions… like if you go on-line and move $100 from checking to savings, you’ll pay a 2% tax on that simple movement. Or when your paycheck hits the bank, they would collect a percentage of that (on top of what they’ve already withheld)… then there’s that “carbon tax” thing they’re trying to soak us for. It also looks like they’re going to try to get people off of cash so they can be assured of collecting these taxes.  The minute you hear that crud, you definitely keep your paychecks away from the bank. I fully expect to see alternative check cashing services cropping up at that point. I expect to see a lot of alternative commerce in general.

These central bankers are doing to the U.S. exactly what they’ve done to the countries in the European Union, as well as so many other countries around the world. In each and every case, they sink their hooks into a country’s economy, rack up the debt service, then impose “austerity measures”… they hike taxes and take away pensions. Yes, they’re doing that here. It is total economic enslavement. We have to stop it. Iceland did… their populace elected some normal non-politician citizens to clean up the mess, then arrested the officials that had created the mess, then decided NOT to pay the IMF for the debt that the country did nothing to rack up. Iceland is showing the way.

I agree that people are waking up to the fact that we are being plundered by a cabal of private bankers. I also understand that most of the money is being held and used by less than 10 big banks, who have managed to bribe congressmen to relax the regulations they had to follow, and then privatize all profits while pushing all losses to the public sector.  We need to quit subsidizing these people. When you add together what we pay in property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes and now the taxes that are going to be charged on employer-provided health insurance, it  is only a short matter of time before we see a full-on taxpayer revolt.

I’ve been pestering people, especially my family, to hurry up and at least buy some friggin’ silver. It is now up to $19.84 spot, meaning that you’ll pay over $22 for a 1 oz. silver eagle. I’ve been buying silver off and on since it hit $9 an ounce, so granted, I’m feeling pretty good about this. It won’t be long before the tipping point on silver at around $22-$24 spot per ounce will spur the market. You might as well buy silver now before the price catches up with its availability. I fully expect silver to re-index back to the old 16 to 1 ratio with gold, fairly soon.

I’m slowly pulling away from the banks, myself.   I  recommend not keeping any more in the bank than is absolutely necessary to write checks against to pay bills. I also recommend keeping cash in the house to cover bills in the event of a “bank holiday”, which looks inevitable. You know the utility companies, mortgage companies and grocery stores will continue doing business in regular money long after it loses its value. The mortgage company is under contract to accept the “currency of the realm”, so that’s a no-brainer.

One other thing… don’t put anything in a bank’s “safe deposit box”.  These things are neither regulated nor insured, and bank employees have all the keys and can plunder them at will. Get yourself a fireproof box for your important papers.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

          

Having spent several evenings talking with ladies who had no earthly idea of what they were looking at when shopping for guns for self-protection, I decided to put some of my thoughts on paper.

There are more gun manufacturers than ever. Your chances of finding a good fit for your lifestyle and protection are excellent. Many manufacturers are creating lines specifically geared for women, including how they typically carry their weapons (purses, anyone?) and their size/strength ratios. There are also more types of ammunition to go with these guns.

I grew up in an NRA household… but that was in the 1970s, before the NRA got so friggin’ nutty about carrying military-style full-auto arms. My dad kept a sizeable collection of fairly exotic ordinance under my bed, in my chest of drawers, and tucked into the attic crawlspace on the other side of my closet. He would describe the protective packaging and length and I would go to the spot and fetch it for him to play with.

The first thing I have to point out is the two basic types: revolvers and semi-automatic. If you want something you can use while still half-asleep, or conversely, while scared shitless, get a good double-action revolver, the more basic, the better. 

Semi-automatic pistols have a “magazine” that you load the bullets into, and the magazine goes up into the butt of the gun where it feeds into the chamber. These tend to be a lot sleeker and the new space-age materials make them lighter and very durable. The thing is, you have to pull back on the top of the thing (the slide) in order to start shooting… which can cost you seconds, especially if you fumble. Once you start shooting, you can keep squeezing until the gun presents you with an empty chamber. You can usually carry more ammo in the magazine than most revolvers, and you can reload by hitting the button to release the spent magazine and then sticking a fresh one in. You sacrifice some ease of use for the smaller size.  Remember it is a “magazine”, not a “clip”… a clip goes onto the top of a really big rifle to feed the ammo directly into the chamber.

If you go for your Concealed Handgun License, you need to qualify on a semi-automatic gun, which most CHL classes will rent to you for that class, that way you can carry either kind of gun after you get your license. In Texas, you have to qualify with a minimum of .32 caliber… period. You can bring your 9 mm, your .40 caliber or anything else you want for the class, but the minimum is .32 caliber.  Once you have your license, you can carry anything you darn well want to… as long as it is concealed.

In Texas, you have to get the CHL in order to carry outside of your property. You can keep a gun in your car at all times, but you can’t take it out of your car unless you are on your property or have the CHL. Having the CHL doesn’t mean that you can carry a firearm just anywhere either… a lot of malls (probably with Yankee owners) forbid carrying on their property, along with a number of government buildings, stadiums and what-not. I won’t bother going to any of these malls.

If you don’t have anyone around to teach you the ways of guns, by all means, take a class! The NRA can refer you. So can your local gun shop. Knowledge is power. Getting yourself past the fear is very empowering.

Now a couple more things:  (1)  You don’t flash your gun unless you are prepared to use it. If someone has broken into your house with you in it, you don’t attempt to make threats. If someone has kicked in your door or window, you shoot first and ask questions later. In Texas we have something called the “Castle Doctrine”… as in “your home is your castle”.  In a lot of instances, simply the presence of a gun has made all the difference in the world, and caused a would-be attacker to flee.

(2)  There is no such thing as “shoot to wound”. You shoot to kill every damn time, and believe it or not, that is a tough thing to accomplish under pressure. You don’t want the criminal coming back with bigger ordinance to use against you, and you don’t want him coming back with a lawsuit, either. Speaking as an ordained minister, go ahead and kill the bugger! He’s going there fast, anyway, so help him get his death-wish. You might as well stop him from continuing on a long string of murders.

Silencers?  Why? Quit watching TV!  The most idiotic thing I ever saw was the title sequence for the old Avengers TV series… shows a silencer on a revolver. I guess that looked tough to the producers, but it showed their ignorance… revolvers are open chamber so the noise comes out of the back. If you shoot, believe me, you want the noise to be noticeable! Noise is your friend! A shot fired into the asphalt of a parking lot does constitute the use of “deadly force” in Texas, but it is more than enough to get someone’s attention if you are stopping an assault.

A word about WD-40:  Only in moderation, and only on revolvers that are easy to clean. WD-40 is basically olive oil, and as such, it turns to goo in fairly short order. When the stuff originally came out, policemen would spray down their guns with this stuff, and discovered that it caused their handguns to misfire in bad way… really embarrassing and dangerous. I inherited a semi-automatic .22 target pistol that had been sprayed down with WD-40… it was so gunked-up that it wouldn’t fire at all. I had to take it to a gunsmith to take apart and use his ultrasonic cleaner on it… $70 to reclaim the use of that gun. Stick to good synthetic machine oils. Talk to your gunsmith.

Gun control:  Means using BOTH HANDS… capice?

SOME FINDINGS:

In finding ammo, I’ve discovered that .32 and .22 are relatively easy to find, even at WalMart.  The .38 and .357 got kind of rare after Obama got sworn in.  9 mm is a lot easier to find across the board. Bear that in mind.

My first handgun purchase was back in 1978… I was 18 and I purchased a North American Arms stainless steel, 5-shot, .22 long rifle derringer, and I carried it either in my pocket or in my purse. We didn’t have the current concealed handgun laws back then. I have two of these now. Great to have on you while doing your walking program. It makes an excellent loud noise, which alone is a deterrent. Not very good past 20 feet, but you wouldn’t want to get hit with a .22 hollow-point, either.

Several manufacturers make a good compact double-action revolver that has the hammer concealed… you just point and squeeze. Smith & Wesson makes a Model 442 Revolver and uses .38 special ammo. Ruger makes the same thing for like $300 less, and theirs is called the LCR.  The idea behind this is so you can throw it in your purse without that hammer thing on the top getting hung up on anything, and you can just keep your hand on your gun in your purse and shoot through your purse if you have to. You just squeeze. I like Ruger… good products and good value.

I personally carry a Kel-Tec P-32 semi-automatic pistol… 9 ounces loaded. The magazine holds 7 bullets, and you can carry with an additional bullet in the chamber so you can just squeeze away without having to cock it. I choose not to because there is no “safety lock” button on the gun. If I have to pull that puppy out, it is going to be intentional.  http://www.kel-tec-cnc.com/  Expect to pay around $350. Taurus makes something similar for about $450.

Something new I discovered:  The Taurus Judge.  It is a small frame 5-shot revolver that can shoot either .45 caliber long bullets or .410 shotgun shells, which makes it a favorite with campers and hikers that come across lots of snakes. Now… a .410 shotgun shell probably won’t kick a lot, given how chunky this particular handgun is. The spread of the pellets in that cartridge ammo would really guarantee enough hits to prove a deterrent to just about any critter, including the two-legged kind. I’m betting the .45 bullets would tend to kick like a mule.   http://www.taurususa.com/  Expect to pay around $500 new, but that depends on the barrel length. The longer the barrel, the better the accuracy and stability.

Now… as for longer weapons… I offer the following link:  http://www.captaindaves.com/guide

Kel-Tec does manufacture a series of semi-automatic rifles in different calibers, and they make these things to be upgraded on a whim. Several models can fold in half. Their SU-22 rifle can carry 26 rounds of .22 caliber long rifle, and will accept magazines for the Atchison M-16 conversion (more ammo). My friends will typically ask you to consider a carbine of some sort. Just bear in mind that you will need training and you will have to carry it… don’t over-do.

If you opt for a shotgun, get one that will hold as many shells as possible. That single-shot may not be enough if it came down to it. The lower the gauge, the bigger the cartridge and the larger the BBs inside the cartridge… and the bigger the kick when fired. Remember that. 

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 Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-05-07 03:58:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

If you get the chance, take a look at his video regarding Native American prophesy about the times we are in:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7cylfQtkDg  there are several parts, so watch all of them. The elders depicted in these films explain things, both in the historical context and in the prophetic context. They speak about how the United States is basically going to die. They speak about how how out of the top 100 “economic units” in the world, 49 are countries and 51 are corporations. That means that corporations are calling the shots.  Today we are living in a fascist corporatocracy… the merger of corporation and state, with the top criminals in Wall Street taking everything they can, plundering all the world, leaving nothing but waste behind.  Look around.  America is in that unsustainable “age of empire” that has collapsed every other empire we’ve ever seen… including the Roman Empire, British Empire, French Empire and Nazi Germany.  We’re already in two war arenas, and our military isn’t doing well.  The U.S. is billions and billions in the hole, and most of that money is going to special corporate interests. War is a racket, and the racketeers are in charge.  The corporate news media is flogging the upcoming probable war with Iran, which has just been equipped with nuclear power and weapons by the Russians. If we, or Israel, messes with Iran, it is going to be bad.  Other markers for this time period include a very probable staged terror event.

We’ve got a short amount of time to get ourselves situated right.

A few people have looked at me like I was crazy when I told them what was coming up in the next few months. Some in the new age community have told me that you manifest what you focus on. Okay… so I have empowered myself to get my ducks in order so I cannot be blindsided by the coming probable economic melt-down.  I’ve been loading up on storable foods, I yanked my money out of the bank and stock market, I’ve invested in metals… and I started a garden.  With that kind of groundwork done, I have handled my preparations for the future as best I can, and I can focus on manifesting whatever I want from a place of security without the distraction of being worried.  Empower yourself to do what you can to get your house in order to lessen the potential for real hardship as you can.  The last thing you want to do is rely on the government to help you… remember Katrina? How about the BP oil spill?  Nope, you’re on your own if you want to survive and even flourish… and that will take some preparation.

Remember the story about the grasshopper and the ant?  The ant worked hard to prepare for the winter while the grasshopper played all summer and then died when winter set in.  This economic winter is gonna be a bitch. People are going to die. There will be riots. Like Gerald Celente says, “when people have lost everything and they have nothing left to lose, that is when they lose it.”

The government is actively doing its best to destroy America. All the laws that prevented total corporate takeover have been removed… the anti-trust acts, Glass-Steagall, the regulations that kept consumer banks apart from investment banking… all of it has been dismantled. Remember back in the 1970s  and 1980s when we had the big savings and loan scandal and the government had to bail out and then investigate thousands of savings & loans nation wide?  Over 5,000 crooked bankers were sent to prison!  Now the rules are gone, the accounting guidelines have been rewritten, and the people who used to investigate, aren’t investigating.  The big-wigs at Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citibank, and the dozen or so others who crashed the market back in 2007/2008 with their derivatives should really be in prison. 

Remember back in the 1970s… after Nixon took us off the last vestiges of the gold standard, it took 2 years for the inflation to hit. The Federal Reserve printed only 13% more money per year over those 2 years, and it translated to a 12% inflation rate. The Fed did a correction by raising the interest rate to 20% to suck the excess money out of the system. The other big difference… we still had our manufacturing base because we hadn’t shipped our jobs overseas. Most of us did pretty well in spite of the high interest, and personally, I was too young/broke at the time to be noticed by Carter’s tax mafia… or Clinton’s for that matter.

Given that it takes 2 years for inflation to hit after they decide to print lots of money… 2008 was when Bush’s TARP bailouts started, followed by all of Obama’s bailouts… he even sent $300 Billion to bail out Greece!   Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have $5 TRILLION exposure to the mortgage market, so technically the government is the primary landowner. Bush, Obama and the Fed have increased the money supply some 120% and there is now some $105 TRILLION in government debt, and most of it has gone to big-wig criminals that created the very same set of crises to begin with.  That is an ungodly amount of currency.  The inflation will likely be hitting this fall… 2 years after the TARP bailout started the ball rolling. We have no idea how high the inflation rate will be, but given the enormity of the situation, it’s likely to be a booger-bear.

We have been looted and now we are being stuck with the bill. People aren’t gonna stand for that, especially when the few that still have jobs and medical benefits see that their premiums have gone up and the insurance coverage they get from their jobs is being taxed as income.  I predict massive tax protests. I can also predict that a lot of people are going to quit filing tax returns to fund this nonsense. 

The mid-term elections coming up?  Bah!  Even if nothing but Tea Party type candidates win in this election, that still leaves all the lame ducks in control through January… and with nothing to lose, they will do everything they can to further their crooked agenda in those 3 months.

The Weimar Republic collapsed one currency, paying off their war debt in debased currency,  then created a new currency backed by the one thing they had:  land.  They still couldn’t make an economic recovery, since in the treaty of WWI, the forces for appeasement gave away Germany’s breadbasket, the Sudetenland. When the rest of the world was whooping it up during the roaring 20’s, Germany couldn’t feed itself.  It wasn’t long after that when a twerp named Hitler came to power, promising “change”.  Having learned the lessons of history,  German Chancellor Merkel decided not to debase the German economy, but rather to make it possible to actually make money by not doing a bunch of bailouts and “stimulus”… and they’ve now got a nearly 9 percent GROWTH rate as a result.   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/world/europe/14germany.html?_r=2&scp=7&sq=german%20economy&st=cse

If the Fed decided to rein it all in this time, how the heck would they do it?  I don’t think they can and I really don’t think they intend to. They will most likely continue to print all the money they can until the whole house of cards collapses. They will pay the debts with debased currency, then they will restart the economy with a new currency that is backed by something else.  But what?  We won’t be allowed to back our currency with OPEC oil any more. We’ve still got oil & gas, lots of real estate (land), minerals of all sorts… of course Obama’s doing his best to stop all of that from being developed.  Even if they do have a new currency waiting in the wings (Amero, anyone?) it may not be readily accepted.  When they do introduce the new currency, you probably won’t get much in trade for the dollars you’re holding in the bank and stock market now. You might as well beat them to it.

Will a currency changeover be orderly?  I kinda doubt it.  Obama’s criminal wild bunch have already legislated a bunch of currency controls to keep us from being able to access our money.  When the dollar collapses and the hyperinflation hits, there will likely be a protracted “bank holiday”  preventing us from having access to our money, and the money will likely have very little value when you can access it.  Can you imagine spending your whole paycheck for a loaf of bread?  Yeah… that bad.  

Can you and your family live on the food, cash and trading goods you have in your house for say… 3 months?  How about longer?  While you have the chance, start buying food before the prices go up.  The grocery stores have to raise the prices on the new, more expensive inventory as they bring it in to replace the old inventory that is being bought up. Buy that $1 can of beans now… don’t wait unti it is $2.50.  Load up on closeouts.  Make sure you have seasonings to make it taste good.  Stock up on what you would want to eat if you got stuck at home for some weeks. You don’t wanna be stuck in a breadline at a FEMA camp.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

          

http://www.naturalnews.com/028712_preparedness_survival.html  Just got a link to an article about this!   And:  http://www.infowars.com/u-s-food-prices-spiraling-out-of-control/

I’ve had the guidance to store food for the long haul, Mormon style, for the last year or so. I also got the guidance to get into gardening, which is now slowly paying off. I purchased a FoodSaver System and began buying dry foods in large amounts, say, 25 pounds or more, and then breaking it down into more manageable amounts using the FoodSaver System. I’ve been buying bulk beans of all sorts, rice, quinoa, amaranth, millet, oats, nonfat dry milk, and a whole range of other staples and putting them in suck-wrapped bags of 4 to 7 cups each. In addition to this, every time I hit Sam’s Club, I pick up some extra staples… Spam, canned chicken or turkey, Ro-Tel Tomatoes with Green Chiles, tomato paste and sauce, dried onions, spices… just about anything I can imagine I might need to prepare simple and nutritious meals.

In America, we are at a crossroads. We know the government is rogue, with unabated and up-front corruption, and is going the way of Nazi Germany… massive expansion of power accompanied by runaway inflation and unprecedented taxation.  People are already showing their displeasure with both political parties, and are getting more vocal about it. The government is pushing through its corporatist/new world order agenda as fast as it can before the mid-term elections.  In short, we can expect things to really get strange.

Living on the Texas gulf coast, I can tell you what cattle people can be based on what has happened during the past few hurricanes. People are short-sighted and stupid… which is to say they are prone to not planning ahead. People are not necessarily good at feeling the situation. I didn’t evacuate during either Hurricane Rita or Ike because I listened to my inner guidance. I even tried to convince my neighbors that they didn’t need to leave, and yet they spent the entire 3 days sitting on a highway in the heat, while I stayed home and relaxed in relative comfort and cooked one nice meal after another. The grocery store shelves were empty 3 days ahead of hurricane landfall. After the hurricane had come and gone, people stood in line for hours outside of local grocery stores, which had very little to sell, but were only letting 5 people at a time inside anyway. The traffic stayed crazy the entire time. It took two months for the grocery store shelves in my area to get back to normal stock levels.

The thing is, the big forecast economists like Gerald Celente and Peter Schiff predict hyper-inflation possibly hitting by the end of this year, and by 2012 at the very latest, causing prices to go up to where most people’s paychecks can’t keep up enough just to put food on the table. That sets the stage for civil unrest, there is the possibility of having to shelter in place… perhaps for weeks. http://www.prisonplanet.com/%e2%80%9cthings-are-never-going-to-get-that-bad%e2%80%9d.html

I can tell you that inflation is already hitting at the grocery stores, and they aren’t carrying the variety they used to.

If the crazies running that whole “new world order” thing manage to pick a war between Iran and Israel, it would probably involve a nuclear exchange and the price of oil would go up. Gas prices could go over $10 a gallon, which would bring most food transport to a screeching halt, and would certainly shove all prices skyward. You’re looking at supply versus demand, and a lot of people caught with their pants down. Depending on the season, we could see riots, or segments of the population starving to death… or dying in FEMA camps. Martial law could become a possibility, with entire neighborhoods closed off by military cordons. It might take a while before things settle down again.

The Mormons have it right… they encourage their families to save as much money as they can and store large amounts of food at home – a three-month supply of what they normally eat and a year’s worth of long-term stocks such as wheat, rice and nuts. Many Mormons also can their own food, and their 140 Mormon storehouses include canneries that stay busy… even more now because of the economy and the number of natural disasters. www.providentliving.org

I’m not a Mormon, but I was reared on the Texas gulf coast. We understood the need for stored water and “hurricane food” that we maintained and cycled through the pantry, and of course, the means to cook a meal, whether charcoal or propane.  http://rocketstoves.org/ has how-to material on making a stove that will heat a whole gallon of water with a few twigs as fuel. Or buy one already made from http://www.stovetec.net  I’ve certainly got twigs in my yard.

Now, when you buy and repackage bulk foods, you have to get into the concept of cycling this stuff. You have to eat it and replace it. I discovered that this cuts down on food expenses quite nicely, while cleaning up your diet.  Believe me, your gut will thank you. If you can only find quinoa at the local health food store for around $5 a pound, and you can buy 25 pounds of it in bulk for $2 a pound, then that is a substantial savings, even with shipping costs. Every dollar you save is worthwhile.

A 12-ounce can of turkey meat, half a cup of brown rice, some non-MSG bullion, a fresh onion, some tarragon, and either a can or packet of frozen mixed veggies makes a really good chicken dish in the rice cooker.  For added pop, I make up a packet of biscuit mix and add that in little globs on top to cook… instant dumplings. 

I purchased some whole grain brown rice elbow pasta from http://www.sunorganic.com and decided to make macaroni and cheese with it… a little butter, milk, Velveeta, and a pinch each of paprika and turmeric. It is far, far better than any other you’ve ever had.

Please talk to your friends and relatives about this topic. Ask them to at least start buying a few extra pantry staples every time they go to the grocery store. When I mention this among people I work around, it is often the case that someone says that their pastor has been encouraging them to stock up… that’s a good thing. Listen… I’d rather have to give food to the food banks than not have it when I really need it.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-05-05 06:43:22. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

My friend in Santa Fe, New Mexico is dealing with some really strange phenomena. New Mexico is melting down and there isn’t a peep about it in the media. Their governor apparently stole billions of dollars from the state, the attorney general is also a crook, the crimelords are running things, and the police can’t be bothered to deal with any crimes that they can’t take a profit from (traffic enforcement). There is no immigration law enforcement.  The economy there stinks worse than probably anywhere else.  The grocery stores aren’t really stocking much, either, so they line the fronts of the shelves with food and don’t load any stock behind that.   The food banks are tapped out and even Costco isn’t carrying anywhere near the variety that we have here in Houston. 

So my friend is trying to put some resources together so she can handle the upcoming shifts, and the probable crazy stuff that may very well accompany all of that. I’ve walked down the aisles at Costco and my local grocery store with her on the phone… I tell her what I see and the price and she tells me how much of it to buy for her. I’ve shipped several heavy boxes to her this past month.

The latest thing was that she needed to find a way to store her food stash so the bugs wouldn’t get into it. It needed to be light and air tight. I suggested she go down to Home Depot, which has the 5 gallon paint buckets with the good lids that have rubber o-rings in them. They’re tough to get open once you have filled them and clamped the lid down.  Turns out, the Home Depot in Santa Fe is out of them… and has been for some time… and they’re not restocking very much, either. She went all over town trying to find something along those lines, but couldn’t. 

This evening after dinner, I went to my local Home Depot, and got my friend the lids, and got myself some buckets and lids as well, among other things. I asked an associate to please check to see if there were any more of the crank-up flashlights… he came back to report there were none. The fellow then asked about why he was seeing so many people loading up on things like these buckets, and emergency type supplies like the batteries and crank radios and the like. I simply explained things as best I could in a nutshell:  we’re about to experience hyper-inflation, and people are preparing by pulling their investments out of the banks and stock market and buying food, ammo and metals.  I explained that we could see the real poo hit the fan as early as first quarter of next year, but we will likely see obvious price inflation hitting as early as this fall.  The man looked at me with glazed, uncomprehending eyes and said that he was glad I was keeping up on these things, as he didn’t have time to.  The poor schmuck… he seemed too old to be that stupid.

The experience tells me that a lot of my neighbors here in Houston are paying attention and trying to stock their pantries, if nothing else.  I’m glad about that.  I’m concerned about the other folks that can’t wrap their heads around what’s going on, hoping that everything will continue bumping along. I try to educate people, but I can’t do their thinking for them. I’m genuinely worried about family members of mine that opt to complain about where the country is heading, and how their 401-Ks are tanking, but aren’t doing anything to be able to handle what looks to be coming up pretty soon. I plan on taking a load of food over to my mom and ask her to “store it for me for a little while”  just to get her marginally equipped.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

          

I just got the ol’ postcard notice from my dentist. This is the same dentist that George Herbert Walker Bush goes to here in Houston. The guy is a real peach, and tries to be gentle. I don’t have the trepidation at the concept of going to the dentist that I used to. I’ve got a handle on a lot of the underlying problems that were giving me hell so many years ago.

Well… last summer, I finally decided to go to the dentist, after having not gone for three years. The hygienist x-rayed me, checked me over and cleaned my teeth, and remarked at how very little plaque I had, and that my gums were amazingly tight. Their main comment was that I had probably been brushing my teeth a little too hard, most probably because I hadn’t been going to the dentist regularly. The dentist himself confirmed this, looking at my information sheet listing the many vitamin and herb supplements that I take, either with every meal, or as I feel the need. These include a whole vitamin C supplement, B-complex, co-enzyme Q-10, MSM, gelatin/silica supplement, Fo-ti, calcium-magnesium-zinc, omega 3-6-9, vitamin D and E, and beta carotene. If I’m fighting an infection, I know to add selenium, olive leaf extract (in capsules) and oregano oil gelcaps to the pile.

I mentioned that I switched to iced tea in place of soda pop, and I use Stevita stevia sweetener in that iced tea. I also munch on ice after meals to clean the teeth, or at least knock off the big chunks. I also switched to non-waxed dental floss, because the unwaxed variety scrubs between the teeth better, and I usually swish with colloidal silver  (and I swallow it) instead of regular mouthwash. I also use an “organic” toothpaste without fluoride, that uses essential oils to control bacteria in the mouth. Fluoride, I’ll remind you, not only does nothing whatsoever to help your teeth, but makes you acquiescent to all sorts of abuse (probably the main reason why we’re in the current pickle with our government), and shuts down the pineal gland (the source of most of our psychic ability). Most of the sweets I make at home are sweetened with stevia, xylitol and inulin-FOS, and much cleaner ingredients than you will ever see in the grocery stores. On top of all that, my campaign to get the candida out of my body has definitely helped my gums.  All of these differences are very good.

I still needed some serious care at the time… I had one cracked tooth, and a couple of the crappy veneers that the quack dentist put on several years ago (and she cut my gums to do so) were falling off, leaving sharp edges. I needed a crown for that broken tooth, so he took a cast and then installed a temporary crown, then got rid of a couple of amalgam fillings and patched one of the veneers. I got to break the whole bill down into four payments, which helped, though it really took a chunk out of my budget. It kept me from putting any money away for the last four months of 2009 and into 2010, which made paying income taxes a booger-bear.

Listen… my teeth aren’t much to look at. I grew up in an area (South Houston) with a lot of natural fluoride in the water that caused me to have streaky yellow teeth; kind of like horse teeth. That quack dentist on Highway 6 is no longer in that location, and her partner in crime, the endodontist she sent everyone to, is now deaf (she never listened to anyone anyway). The point I’m making is that we have to take care of ourselves the best we can while we are in these fragile bodies. That means questioning the standard medical or dental line and doing our own research. It also means listening to our own bodies. What you do that impacts your dental health, also remarkably impacts the rest of the body in every way, long term.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-04-25 16:03:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

In this instance, I am talking about Diatomaceous Earth.

A little background story first… some years ago, I went to a very bad dentist. The woman was ruthless and incompetent at the same time. She screwed around with everything in my mouth, cutting into gums, replacing enamel with crowns and veneers, and did this screwed up bridge over two teeth where two root canals had been done… both on her watch because the endodontist she sent me to did a half-ass job the first time. I relived the Inquisition every time I went there, and I payed her thousands of dollars for the privilege. In the midst of all this, there were antibiotics… several rounds of them. I went from being on the way to losing some weight, to having my gut in complete upheaval because of a systemic candida albicans infection. I wound up with food allergies. I wound up with my period becoming painful and heavy, and taking way too long. I wound up with mostly chronic diarrhea punctuated by occasional days of not having the runs.

I had been “diagnosed” by several holistic doctors as having leaky bowel syndrome… which actually refers to pinprick holes in the intestine walls leaking into the peritoneum… actually a rare occurrence.  After spending thousands of dollars on Chinese herbs and acupuncture, I finally hit upon what was really going on.

I’ve tried a number of things to get the candida under control and out of my system. I did the Hanna Kroeger Candida Formulas I and II, and I supplemented that with Black Walnut capsules… and that did help some… in fact, if my period were really rough, I would hit this stuff and the period would slack off pretty well.

I tried baking soda… as in swallowing several spoonfuls a day, chased by water. Yes, that alkalizes the system, but it couldn’t do it all.

I tried Willard Water… great stuff… but again, it alkalizes the system, but couldn’t do it all. It did give me some comfort and relief. I put the stuff in my cats’ drinking water and it completely healed one cat’s weepy eye that had been scratched by another cat.

At long last, last Friday the 16^th, I followed a friend to a nice feed store on Veterans Memorial Drive, and picked up a big 25 lb. bag of food grade diatomaceous earth for $19.50.  That night, I started taking the stuff: one tablespoon in some juice. The stuff is a fine powder that has an astringent smell… you will need something with a reasonably strong taste to get it down.

I’ve been taking one helping in the morning and another at night and I am impressed. Seriously. My food cravings are changing… I want veggies and fruit and nuts like all get-out. My gut is feeling good and my tummy isn’t as poochy. I’ve had NO diarrhea, and what has come out has been really interesting. The stools are large and solid, and it looks like it has scrubbed some oddball stuff out of my body… some kind of fuzzy, wooly stuff.

This morning, Thursday, I noticed that the rosacea on my cheeks was already fading. While it has never been a severe case of the red blotchiness, I don’t like it. It won’t be long before I’ll be down to just using powder foundation without the liquid foundation under it.

Since the basis of diatomaceous earth is silica, I expect my hair to get even better looking. I hope my nails improve as well. 

So what else can I do with this humongous bag of D.E.?  I’ve given several ziplock bags of it to friends to try out. I’ve put a pinch of it into my cats’ food (you really have to bury it in something moist). The stuff can be used to kill bugs… they walk in it and then when they clean themselves, the tiny diatoms are sharp enough to kill the bugs. I have used D.E. in my garden with some success.

By all means, give this stuff a try. At the very least, it won’t hurt you. It’s cheap and it has numerous applications.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-04-23 05:42:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

          

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/quantitative-easing.html   In the world of double-speak economists and politicians, they’ve coined a new phrase in an effort to make inflation not sound quite so bad. “Quantitative easing” is their new term for continuing to print lots and lots of money to inject into the banking system. Since the new money still isn’t backed by anything, it just means that all the other money already floating around out there loses a proportional amount of its value. Now, these days, they may not be actually printing the money on a printing press, but rather just creating the money digitally, which works just as well to dilute the value of the actual greenbacks you have in your wallet.  The kind of inflation we’re likely going to be seeing when it kicks in, probably isn’t going to be double or triple digit annual inflation… it’ll likely be a lot worse than that.

Those of us who remember the 1970s may think of that as inflation, which it was, but it was really “STAGFLATION”, which is inflation being held in check by deflation… stagnant.  We’re getting out of a stagflation time period, and Obama’s spending spree is turning it into full-tilt inflation. No kidding.

Deflation?  The media is also flogging the term “DEFLATION”, which is what Japan has been wrestling with for some years now. In short, deflation is a contraction in the money supply. Friends… deflation would be a “best case” scenario. We ain’t gonna see it. We’ve been set up for a replay of Argentina’s or the post-WWI German Weimar Republic’s hyper-inflationary economic crisis. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/an_argentinalike_economic_cris.html   and http://www.shadowstats.com/article/hyperinflation-2010     In short, our manufacturing base has been outsourced, companies are relocating their offices to other countries (like Halliburton) to avoid paying taxes, our main growth industry has been “debt” and “credit” for some years now, and the middle class is collapsing while the money has been channeled to the uppermost 2% of the economic ladder.  The really big difference between the U.S. and Japan is that Japan’s people save their money… and there is no incentive for keeping your money in the bank here because the interest rates are so abyssmal.   Obama’s policy of taxing the shrinking middle class to pay for everything is going to finish the job that his masters among the Bilderbergs (or whatever you want to call those louts) started under Nixon.  They are in the process of building the debt bomb even bigger, then monetizing it by printing lots and lots of money so it won’t look so bad.  We’re staring at LOTS of inflation, folks.  Some possible scenarios as to what we might expect have been compiled in an article by Jeff Fisher here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/fisher-j1.1.1.html   and it is all pretty scary if you haven’t been preparing yourself. If you have been taking some steps, some of the possibilities spelled out in Fisher’s column are actually fairly juicy.  

What about bank runs?  They’re already doing their best to head you off. If you’re gonna get your money into metals, you need to do it NOW… cash out your IRAs and get out of the stock market while the money is still worth something, and certainly before the end of this year… 2011 will bring about a whole new ball game.  http://www.infowars.com/capital-controls-the-final-phase-in-the-great-looting-of-america/   They’re about to institute all sorts of taxes and fees and other methods give control of your money to the very looters that have orchestrated the destruction of our economy, while keeping you from gaining access to your own money; essentially forcing private sector savings into public sector debt. If you plan on taking your retirement savings and fleeing the country, you gotta do it before 2013.   They will likely seize all retirement savings.  You might as well pay the lower taxes now and beat them to it while the prices of metals are still fairly low due to the manipulation of those markets. You can still buy generic silver round and square for about $20 an ounce.

Will this forthcoming election be enough to head this off?  Well… there’s a relative few candidates that really understand the Constitution and the economy.  There aren’t enough of them.  If we’re lucky, we’ll get a bunch of fiscal conservatives in there that will overturn ObamaCare and the carbon taxes and all that other horrible stuff.  I’m betting we’ll see a major tide of republicans taking seats in congress, but if they’re like Bush’s neocon congress, it will be just more of the same old thing.  When the democrats lose their seats in this election, they won’t have anything to lose, so they’ll shove through even more bad legislation and debt-production in the couple of months before the new officeholders get sworn in. Don’t wait for the government to do anything positive… ever.  Career politicians are in it for their own survival and will do anything expeditious to stay in office… and that won’t include anything that involves restraint or paring back an overgrown government.  They’ll have to be ridden out on a rail.

You can see the train coming… you can see the tracks and hear the engine and the whistle, and it’s heading this way.  All the indicators are there. This same bunch of Wall Street brigands has done this same scenario over and over all over the world.  It’s taken them a while, but they’ve effectively succeeded in crashing the U.S. economy.  You might as well get your ducks in a row.  If it turns out you don’t need the metals and stored food, you haven’t wasted anything… it’s all still useable. If you need the metals and stored food, you can’t wait until you’re “at need” to put your resources together.  Take care of yourself, hon!

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

          

Okay… I’ve been looking at ingredient labels and wondering why we’re eating the packaged crap at the grocery stores. Having been “prepping” by stocking up on basic materials, I’ve had to re-explore home cooking, which better prepares me for self-sufficiency in the aftermath of whatever might throw a monkey-wrench into the normal commerce around these parts. Seeing my neighbors standing in line for hours to enter a grocery store that had been completely denuded a couple of days in front of Hurricane Ike, was a good indicator that the more I can do for myself, the better.

Now… talking to a friend on the phone, who admittedly says that she doesn’t have time to cook… and here the poor dear is carrying enough weight to make an extra person… just doesn’t wash with me.  That very evening I had created a perfectly wonderful and healthy dish with some of my pantry basics. I took a cup of quinoa, about 3 cups of water, a MSG-free chicken buillion cube, half a chopped onion, a tablespoon of the garlic in olive oil, and one of the 12-ounce cans of turkey meat, drained (I buy the 4-packs of the turkey meat at the wholesale clubs)… and dumped the entire lot into my rice cooker and pretty much walked away.  Once things got about half done, I dumped in a couple of fist-fulls of the dehydrated carrot bits and half a bag of frozen peas.  It became a wonderful dish. You can easily use Veg-All mixed vegetables in a can for the veggie. I made up a quick gravy using a can of Cream of Mushroom soup to top it off.  My husband said it was like turkey and dressing all together, and he certainly made a lunch of it to take to work the next day. 

Okay… I had the veggies, the meat, plenty of flavor, and a HEALTHY carb… quinoa  is gluten-free, has about 15% protein content, a high amino acid score, a relatively low glycemic load, plenty of fiber and is loaded with bone-building minerals.

I mean, really… dumping some ingredients into a rice cooker and walking away?  That didn’t take much of any time.  Okay… it took a little time to chop up an onion.

What did it actually cost? $2 for the can of turkey, maybe $1 for the quinoa, half an onion I already had in the fridge and half a bag of veggies I already had in the freezer (closed with a clothes-pin)… maybe another dollar?  And a can of cream of mushroom soup to top it off? Not much there. I  created a total of 5 healthy meals for maybe $5.50. 

Time to get real, America!

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

          

I was looking at a Discovery Channel program about some Viking settlements they’ve unearthed in Great Britain. The more I learn about this branch of my ancestry, the more impressed I am with them. They were consummate traders. They had a trading network that brought fine goods all the way to northern Europe from the middle east. They couldn’t make fine wire to wire-wrap things (see my own website for examples similar to what they did) so they imported it. They swapped for things. 

 They wore silver barter bracelets… cuff bracelets that they would chop off sections of and use for currency; if a Viking wanted a new leather jerkin, he’d ask a purveyor how much and they’d weigh the barter bracelet, then measure the appropriate amount and chop it off with an axe. If they carried silver or gold coins, they chopped these into pieces as required per transaction.

The Native Americans… Indians… were very similar. Some 500 tribes scattered across the Americas networked their trading and met at a number of trading sites. Coral, abalone and cowrie shells have been found in burial sites far inland, well away from the tribes who were geographically close to these goods. What one tribe had, another tribe wanted.  Pipestone found its way all over the Americas. When tribes or individuals rendezvoused at these trading sites, people were also exchanged… marriages were arranged.  Most tribes were extended families, so you didn’t marry within your own tribe… these ancestors understood the problem with inbreeding.  “Wampum” was the trading medium… and at one point, they settled on beads and shells as the “wampum” and wore these strung on necklaces or decorating clothing, to be removed and traded with as needed.

The point is, where there are people, there is a requirement and a desire for trade. It’s against human nature not to want to trade. We got away from traditional bartering with the advent of “currency”. I can see that we’re going to be going back to the old ways of doing business, at least until a new currency can be established, hopefully without the private banking cabal involved.

Those of you that have been reading my humble blog, know that I’m a “prepper” and a “gold & silver bug”.  I recently cashed out my IRAs that had been languishing in the bank, however “safe” that was at such a miserably small interest rate. Believe me, when a bank has held $10,000 of your money for a whole year and barely paid you $50 in interest… it is time to buy metals.  I paid the fees and taxes, and  purchased silver and gold bullion, and a few other potentially useful things.  Gold is for preservation of wealth, and silver would likely be the preferred medium for barter.

I know that silver and gold prices have been heavily manipulated, especially silver. Silver used to trade at a 16-1 ratio with gold, meaning that the price of silver was being held artificially low to begin with before Goldman Sachs and the other criminal banksters began shorting it… selling positions in the metal without even holding any of the metal. Why they got away with that is completely beyond me. Suffice it to say, that at some point, anyone having dealt with them will eventually go back to them and demand to see the vault, and at that point, metals prices will likely jump. They’ll definitely jump when the dollars that have been held by other countries around the world are brought back to the U.S. to purchase what they can before what little value the currency has craters once and for all and the hyper-inflation hits hard.  

Okay… so there are a few of you that don’t really understand what could happen when the dollar loses its hegemony as the world’s default currency. Right now, all oil is traded in “petro-dollars” with the U.S. dollar as the pricing unit. Our government is spending money that it doesn’t have and the banking cabal Federal Reserve is printing it, causing the money to lose its value as the supply dilutes. At some point, the countries that have been buying our debt (as in Treasury Bills) will consider it a bad investment because the new dollars being paid to them are not going to be as valuable as the old dollars they bought the T-bills with… and they will offload the dollars any way they can, either by dumping them in the financial markets or by coming to the U.S. and buying up anything with perceived value while they can. Either way, all that money comes back here, and the dilution factor hits in earnest. 

• Which means that OPEC will not accept dollars in exchange for oil any more.
• Which means that fuel will likely become scarce, and farmers will have a tougher time affording fuel to run those big machines to do the farming, and that the truckers that move the food across the land will probably be making a lot fewer trips.
• Which means that your local grocery store might not be able to restock inventory.
• Which means that food prices would likely be going up hugely because of the cost of production and the cost of shipping. 
• What do you think people might do in that event?  The poorest among us would feel the effects first. We’ve already got over 40 million people relying on food stamps.  So under those circumstances we may be looking at the possibility of civil unrest, riots, martial law, lockdowns of entire districts, and… starvation.
• Which means that each person will likely be stuck with whatever they’ve got stored.
• Power generation could very well be effected, as could other utilities. Are you ready for far higher prices on utilities coupled with blackouts and rationing?
• It could take a while to get things straightened out… perhaps months, maybe longer. 
• Things could come to a standstill in the meantime while food production localizes and farmers’ markets take the place of supermarkets. Barter will likely become the main means of trade.

Even if you have a modest budget… if you can still dine out on burgers a couple of times a week, you can retool and make some basic preparations.  Eat a nut-butter sandwich instead of McDonald’s, and put that money to work for you by buying some stuff. Come on now, you can buy a 1-pound bag of lentils, beans, rice or split peas for like $0.85  so if the average McDonald’s lunch is like $6.00, you can buy at least six bags of food you can store. Or you could save the cost for a couple of those lunches and go purchase some junk silver (90% silver coins) or some generic silver round at a local bullion dealer. Yes, you’d pay sales tax on bullion purchases under $1,000, but you’d have something that would be worth something.

A lot of grocery stores are closing out some inventories… I picked up 1 pound shake dispensers of spices (onion powder, garlic powder, chili powder, etc.) for $2 each. You’ll need to flavor those beans. I picked up some close outs on organic unbleached white flour for $3.50 a 5 pound bag… I learned to make tortillas from scratch.  Shop the sales!  Find a friend with a Costco or Sam’s Club membership and go shopping with them… you can buy twice as much for the same price as a regular grocery store. 

Do these things for yourself while your dollars will still purchase things that have real value and are useful, and that could very well sustain you. I’ve been telling people to clean out their closets to get rid of anything they don’t use, store food in every nook and cranny, and buy ammunition for self-defense. Gold and silver are good, but food and ammo will likely come into play first.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc