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Should We Currently Emphasize Storage Food or Gun Purchases?
Should We Currently Emphasize Storage Food or Gun Purchases?
I have a dreaded sense of foreboding with the recent election results, as I’m sure many of your readers do. After Y2K, my preparations for long term unrest had lapsed, and I feel into a state of complacency. I have slowly accumulated a fair number of firearms to protect my family over the years, and have acquired a couple of thousand rounds for each main battle rifle. The additional magazines have arrived in the mail, (thanks for that great link to CDNN by the way), and I feel I’m somewhat prepared in this regard. If only I could convince my wife to shoot.

Iran switches reserves to gold
Iran switches reserves to gold
Iran has converted financial reserves into gold to avoid future problems, an adviser to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in comments published on Saturday, after the price of oil fell more than 60 percent from a peak in July.

Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, is under U.N. and U.S. sanctions over its disputed nuclear programme and is now also facing declining revenue from its oil exports after crude prices tumbled.

“With the plans of the presidency…the country’s money reserves were changed into gold so that we wouldn’t be faced with many problems in the future,” presidential adviser Mojtaba Samareh-Hashemi was quoted as saying by business daily Poul.

Survivalist Cuisine: Apocalypse grade tomatoes
The financial world has been shaken to its foundations. Waves of panic selling have sent global markets into free fall. Some people have even started to hoard cash outside of banks. “People are panicked, and they want something as close to the mattress as they can find,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. told USA Today this week.

Rebuilding the Economy - Darkness Before the Dawn | The Survival Podcast
Today we will take a look at what we can learn about what is coming from the bail out requests by Ford, Chevy and Chrysler. We also are giving away another group of tactical Christmas Stockings from John Willis at SOE Tactical Gear.

Stealth Survival: Simple Survival Tips - Balanced Preppin’
While it is very easy to get carried away by our emotions at time, it is important to keep a balance in your preps. There are certain things that you will always need to survive. If you fail to maintain a proper balance within these needs, you run the risk of endangering your survival.