Gates Foundation

More sites, referencing who is behind the scenes of the Doomsday Seed Vault...
Monsanto, Bill Gates, the Rockefellers and the Morgans.

Yeah, I feel comfortable with this.
http://www.rssmicro.com/?q=bill%20gates,%20seed%20vault

Wind_Dancer
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." ~~From Revolution, a Manifesto by Dr. Ron Paul

10 day survival kit for the car for under $25
By Jeffrey Yago, P.E., CEM
From backwoodshome magazine

It seems like every winter there are news stories of people getting stranded for weeks in bad weather while driving through the many remote areas of our country. In fact, this past winter, our nation held its breath waiting for news of James Kim and his family who got lost traveling the snowy roads of Josephine County in Oregon, not far from where this magazine is published. While his wife and daughters, who stayed with their vehicle, were eventually found alive, he succumbed to the cold as he hiked through snow looking for help for his family. And there are also many cases of people trapped for days in their vehicles after skidding over a bridge embankment, even though they were only a few hundred feet from a busy highway.

I have written many articles about how to prepare your home for a power outage or national emergency, but today I want to address how to be prepared for an emergency when traveling in your car or truck.

Read more here...

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/yago104.html

Wind_Dancer
Houston TX

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." ~~From Revolution, a Manifesto by Dr. Ron Paul

One method of building a water recovery system I have used while survival camping in the Big Bend National Park is this:
) Find an area here there is plenty of plant life, I found a small washout. The soil should have some dampness. It doesn't need to be wet, just slightly moist.
) Dig a hole about 10" in diameter and about the same depth. I used my knife for this.
) Place a cup or other container in the center of the hole.
) Lay a piece of plastic across the top of the hole and seal the edges with some of the material removed from the hole.
) Place a small pebble in the center, over the cup.
) Take a nap. This should be done during the heat of the day when it's too hot for activity anyway. You can also forage for food during this time.
) After a couple of hours there should be water in the cup that is safe to drink.

Note: Adding crushed leaves or cactus to the bottom of the hole will add more moisture.

If you are in an area where there is a heavy Dew you can stretch a tarp over a frame made of sapling poles and elevated. Place a container under the center and drop a pebble in the center of the tarp. Poke a small hole there. Dew Water will collect on the tarp and run to the center and drip into the container. You'll be surprised as to the volume you get if it is a heavy Dew. The tarp can also be used simultaneously as an impromptu shelter.
Conversely the tarp can be stretched at an angle forming a "lean To" curl up the lower edge to form a trough with one end higher than the other. Place a container at the low end to collect the water.

The only bad thing about an distiller is that it looses its energy structure during the process. Unless recharged via crystals, sunlight, or geometry alignments. Even if energy structure is raised, there is still a lack of nutrients. Maybe look into gravity filters. I have a big berky, love it, and is clean pure filtered water that I can then take and energize, and then bring right to freezing, which further structures the vibratory levels of the water....

Peace.

Consider Joining Texas_Self_Sufficiency: Home Grown Self Sufficiency.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas_Self_Sufficiency/

This is the organizational page for Texas_Self_Sufficiency workshops.

We are a group promoting and educating for self sufficiency.

Things have become somewhat uncertain in our time. The national politics are corrupt, our infrastructure is failing, the value of our money is in the toilet, food and energy shortages are on the horizon. The signs of uncertainty, decay, and depression are all around us. There is less than 2 weeks of food warehoused in this country, energy costs are insane, inflation and it's sister deflation are nibbling at the fabric of our society. Katrina epitomized the ineptitude of our governmental safety nets. We have no where to turn in an emergency or truly hard times. Who will you depend on if hard times or emergency strikes?

In a time when all appearances indicate that we are alone there is the hope of small communities of those who have chosen to be self reliant. They focus on learning how to provide the necessities of life for themselves and their small community.

Here you will find such a community. Strangers have come together to exchange knowledge, expertise, services and a common spirit to re-establish the core of civility, self reliance.

We hold workshops to teach and learn alternate energy, gardening, food storage, skills, crafts, trades, healing, fellowship, and other skills to thrive under times of hardship and the failure of society.

So you are welcome to learn and teach here with the rest of us who are groping through the fog for direction.

Occasionally someone may offer to sell or otherwise provide materials and equipment and as long as it is on subject thats fine. We don't want a lot of spam however. Spammers will be warned and on repeated offenses will be banned.

We also encourage Civility in dealing with each other. This is a close knit community and who know, if things get bad enough some of us may end up living together. So lets be friends.

The Windstalker

Group Information:
* Members: 23
* Category: Texas
* Founded: May 10, 2008

"It's freedom for everyone or freedom for no one."
The Windstalker

My sister and I (twins) are your age....and recently purchased 42 acres of mostly pasture land with 11 acres of this wooded,- a natural spring - all on a hill. This was never developed for a residance and has been hayed for some years. It appears we will have to do much of everything ourselves - a home,barn,fencing ...- but I can't wait to actually get started - kind of scarry but we have to do it. I am enrolling in a biodynamic agriculture course and plan to teach this on our completely self sustained homestead - everything we earn is going into this - we grew up on a farm but both work outside of farming now and hope to get totally out of the rat race soon and back to our roots!! We share your dream!

"I give self sufficiency classes at my farm on Sundays....."
Let me clarify.
They are free and we encourage the participants to share their knowledge.

We cover: gardening, food storage, alternate energy, alternate home construction, target practice, and what ever the participants would like to cover.

Survival is the first law of Man. Now is a good time to learn more on this subject and I recommend that you start looking for veterans who have gone to many survival schools, or had to survive under extreme circumstance.

This will accomplish many things such as, it gives vets a sense of appreciation that hollow words will never fill. You have the advantage of talking with someone who has "been there" instead of someone who spouts much verbiage, but in reality only wants your money. You get to learn many skills "hands on" which is the only way some folks can learn. You can ask questions and get answers immediately, instead of trying to look up answers in an index.

I'm not knocking survival links, some of the above are really informative. It just makes sense to utilize a valuable resource that is mostly free, and learn skills that can be applied in time of war or "civil unrest".

If you wait too long, at least find out who the real vets are in your neighborhood so you will know who to run to when the poop is in the wind.

"Peace, through superior firepower."

The Self Sufficient link there is really good!

I am growing my own vegetables this season, which I am really excited about.

There are excellent videos on Youtube for urban gardening, such as making raised beds on roof tops, etc. I had a playlist, but it seems to have disappeared. I'll post a link to it when I recreate it.

I walk around my neighborhood at times and wonder why people with gardens waste all that space on grass. Raised beds are attractive and easy to maintain and you get something useful out of them.

I've recently gotten involved with a group of people here, that are trying to raise awareness to the subject of "growing your own" and one of our main topics was using what land you have available to work for you.

I'm not against green lovely sprawling gardens, by no means. I just think that the land could be put to better use and the satisfaction of growing your own is fantastic!

Edited to add: Do a searchon Youtube for: GardenGirltv She's great - and for you guys - not bad to look at! ;)