How To Begin Your Water Preparations: Short-Term Water Supply

'Short-Term Water Storage is any water storage that is designed to provide drinking water for 90 days or less (3 months). That is my definition and what I recommend working toward, if you haven’t achieved that already. Whether you are a collapse prepper, or just someone who feels it’s a good idea to have extras on hand for an emergency, a three-month supply is an excellent foundation to build.

Let’s get specific now.'

Read more ...

Read more »

Goldman Sachs created the food crisis — “Foreign Policy” tells how they did it

'Don’t blame American appetites, rising oil prices, or genetically modified crops for rising food prices. Wall Street’s at fault for the spiraling cost of food.'

' “Demand and supply certainly matter. But there’s another reason why food across the world has become so expensive: Wall Street greed. It took the brilliant minds of Goldman Sachs to realize the simple truth that nothing is more valuable than our daily bread. And where there’s value, there’s money to be made. 

In 1991, Goldman bankers, led by their prescient president Gary Cohn, came up with a new kind of investment product, a derivative that tracked 24 raw materials, from precious metals and energy to coffee, cocoa, cattle, corn, hogs, soy, and wheat. 

They weighted the investment value of each element, blended and commingled the parts into sums, then reduced what had been a complicated collection of real things into a mathematical formula that could be expressed as a single manifestation, to be known henceforth as the Goldman Sachs Commodity Index (GSCI).'


Read more...

Read more »

Freedoms Lost – Underground Survival – Catastrophe & Upheaval

2011 -2012
Part One 

by Dr.Mark Sircus

 'Bloomberg News reported: The world may face social unrest including food riots in April as grain prices increase, said Philippe Chalmin, an economic adviser to the French government. “Around Easter we could start to see food riots.” The United Nations warned last week that millions of people are now at risk as Global wheat stocks and soybean fell by millions of tons each.
 
Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank, further warned this past week that rising food prices are “a threat to global growth and social stability.” We are just “one poor harvest away from chaos”. There is not much room for further weather problems in terms of agricultural production. The news is starting to scream out that record high food prices are going to bring on a global crisis and it will.

Everyone who can should be stocking up on survival foods and other things like magnesium oil, sodium bicarbonate and iodine. Rejuvenate is my favorite all-in-one combined nutritional survival food that doubles as one of the best medicines and health foods I have ever consumed.'


Read more...

Read more »

SURVIVE ANYTHING! Chapter 2: Food Crisis

 

'Food production is one of the most essential concerns of any society. Without direct availability and ease of consumption, without the consistent flow of agricultural goods, every nation existing today (except the most primitive) would immediately find its infrastructure crumbling and its people in a furious panic. It’s strange to me, then, that long term independent food planning is the one concern that many Americans seem to take most for granted. 

Firearms and ammo, camping gear and bug-out-bags, MRE’s, beans, and rice; these are the easiest part of your survival foundation. The hard part is not storage of goods, but devising a solid and practical plan for sustainability in the long term. This starts with the capacity to support your own agriculture regardless of how long the grid is down, even if it is down indefinitely.'

Read more...

Read more »

The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It

UPDATE: One of our readers was kind enough to send along a link to the full article. It's available here.

Thom shared a little of the article during his interview with Kaufman.

Hartmann: "The history of food took an ominous turn in 1991, at a time when no one was paying much attention. That was the year Goldman Sachs decided our daily bread might make an excellent investment."

And then towards the end of the story, just a couple of sentences here. "Bankers had taken control of the world's food, money chased money and a billion people went hungry." Remember the food riots of a couple of years ago around the world?

"The world wide price of food had risen by 80% between 2005 and 2008 and unlike other food catastrophes in the last half century or so, the United States was not insulated from this one." Could it be because it was our banksters that were doing it?

"As 49 million Americans found themselves unable to put a full meal on the table, one in five kids came to be dependent on food kitchens. In Los Angeles nearly a million people went hungry. In Detroit, armed guards had to watch over grocery stores." And then the question, "Could this happen again?"

Really great interview. Too bad our "mainstream media" isn't touching this one. As they noted during the interview, it looks like there's nothing that these bankers won't exploit to make a buck. Really disgusting. And all we've got going on in the United States is some half-baked sorry excuse for "reform".


Source: Video Cafe

Read more »