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#Dankest Memes Of The 2016 #Presidential Race So Far

May 2, 2016 by s.m. gibson

AntiMedia Staff
May 2, 2016

(ANTIMEDIA) As your thumb guides you through an endless sea of invisible friends pontificating to strangers on social media, your eye catches what appears to be a never-before-seen meme from that page you follow. Your fifth digit hesitates as it scrolls in retreat back through the “news” feed when the dankness overtakes you. An accidental snort audibly stutters from your face as you attempt to suppress the brief burst of awkward giddiness.

Embarrassing.

You’re not even supposed to be on your phone right now, but you’re a rebel and confidently press share, anyway, even though you’re friends with your boss on Facebook. That meme says everything you ever wanted to say about the candidate(s) with whom you do not identify — and it must be seen by others. As you await the cyber-gratitude that comes with being the first on your friends list to share the latest viral meme, you finally allow yourself to be bothered and decide to do some “actual” work. (It’s about time too, and I don’t care what your boss “let’s” you do).

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction… and in its typical dark satirical form, the internet’s response to the current U.S. presidential race has been nothing short of hilarious. Some of the memes floating around are almost as ridiculous as the candidates, themselves.

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#EMP Attack Would Destroy #Civilization: “A Nightmare You’ll Never Wake Up From”

May 2, 2016 by mac slavo

It could all be over tomorrow. A truly modern threat.

The threat of an EMP – via natural event or deliberate attack – remains a grave one. Its potential as a WMD looms larger than any other weapons known to man.

Due to the dependency of modern society on electricity, supply chains and cities, an electromagnetic pulse wave poses a threat that really could kill or cripple 90% of the population.

It is a system wide reset that few are prepared for.

As WND reported:

Think this couldn’t happen in today’s America?

Think again, says former Defense Department security policy analyst and WND national security writer Michael Maloof. All it would take is an EMP attack to knock out all “life-sustaining critical infrastructure.”

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“And if the electrical grid system is knocked out, it affects everything that depends upon that electrical grid. It could include our telecommunications, our banking and finance systems, our petroleum and natural gas transportation systems, our food and water delivery systems, our emergency services. It also affects all of the automated control devices that we take for granted every day, like the automatic control of lights, our surge system.”

He added, “It would be a nightmare you’ll never wake up from.”

The impact on life supporting-medical devices alone would be devastating to millions of people in the population.

It is a stark reminder that all the high technology of this world has been built on a fragile and very vulnerable foundation.

Such an event would also render hospitals unable to help their patients, as they rely on electronics. People with pacemakers or other electrical-based medical devices would suddenly lose their source of life.

“One thing people don’t really talk about is the impact it would have on nuclear reactors,” added Maloof, who wrote about the EMP threat in his book “A Nation Forsaken.” “When you look at what happened in Fukushima in Japan a few years ago with just one reactor, the impact on something like 147 nuclear reactors we have in the United States could be not only catastrophic, but cataclysmic.”

As SHTF has reported numerous times before, these effects could be minimalized if the government worked with the private sector to reinforce the grid, and protect critical infrastructure.

The problem is that this is very expensive, the grid is very old, and the powers-thatbe are much more likely to capitalize on the fear and horror after an event has already taken place… rather than simply resolve the issue with proper shielding.

Of course, that may change. But will it be too late?

The military has moved many of its vital operations, equipment and contingency forces back to Cheyenne Mountain to reinforce the continuity of their operations; numerous government agencies have taken similar measures.

But the vast majority of the population remain dangerously unprotected. Self-reliant individuals can, however, prepare for life off the grid, and even protect backup electronics in a homemade Faraday cage, as SHTF previously reported:

“Island yourself” from the central grid… that’s former FERC chief John Wellinghoff’s advice to individuals – preppers if you will – for surviving any grid downs that could occur from an EMP, a cyber attack or other event powerful enough to interrupt the highly vulnerable primary grid.

People are beginning to understand that they need their own onsite capabilities to island themselves from the grid. That’s because the grid’s external vulnerabilities will continue to be a problem until we do have substantial amounts of distributed generation. I have a solar photovoltaic system that provides 100% of my power needs. I am looking into how I can island myself off the grid. But it is not just me, the military is moving toward micro-grids at all of their bases because they understand the vulnerability of those bases to outages.

Let us pray that the day never comes…

SHTFplan and Mac Slavo www.shtfplan.com

On a Frugal #Grocery #Budget? The Prices of These 10 Foods Have Skyrocketed in the Past Year

May 2, 2016 by daisy luther

May 2, 2016

With the crazy instability of the economy these days, nearly everyone has a frugal grocery budget as they struggle to cut expenses where they can. Those of us who are strong believers in building a pantry tend to pay particular attention to the variations of the prices of specific foods since we strive to purchase items for our pantry when they are at their lowest points. (You can

Those of us who are strong believers in building a pantry tend to pay particular attention to the variations of the prices of specific foods since we strive to purchase items for our pantry when they are at their lowest points. (You can learn more about shopping to build a pantry here.) By purchasing food at the lowest price in the cycle, your family can enjoy items at yesterday’s prices while everyone else is paying far more for the same item at today’s prices.

A great way to track the change in food costs is through the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Each month, the BLS tracks the price variations of commonly purchased food items. Lately, we’ve seen a pretty dramatic increase in the costs of 10 particular foods since this time last year.

The Price of These 10 Foods Has Skyrocketed in the Past Year

Here’s the list of foods that, unless purchased wisely (or better yet, homegrown when possible) could blow your frugal grocery budget.

Strawberries: up 22.1%
Apples: up 16.4%
Lemons: up 15.2%
Grapes: up 13.7%
Tomatoes: up 13.2%
Rice: up 6.1%
Potato Chips: up 5% (no better time than the present to give up nutritionless snacks!)
Peanut Butter: up 4.1%
Frozen Orange Juice: up 3%
Bacon: up 2.5%

(Hat tip to Money and Career Cheat Sheet)

And if you are particular about where your food comes from, the organic versions of these foods cost even more. (Check out this year’s list of the most pesticide-laden foods at the store – quite a few of them appear on the list of foods with rising prices!) For example, at my local grocery store, organic apples are more than double the price per pound of conventionally grown apples – and I live where apples are grown!

What does this mean in actual dollars and cents?

Well, when you look at the items one by one, it doesn’t seem like a dramatic increase. However, if you look at them by the cart full, or moreover, during the course of a year, it could really add up.

Let’s take apples, for example. A large apple has increased in price by about 20 cents. If you were to eat an apple a day, over the course of the year, you’d pay an additional $73 over the course of the year for your apple. If all of the members of a family of 4 imbibed in the apple a day habit, that adds up to $292 for the lunchbox snack.

Of course, I’m not telling you that you must eschew apples for the entire year.

How to get the most bang for your grocery bucks

For these (or any other foods) that you buy at the grocery store, it’s important to be aware that the prices will fluctuate. You need to pay attention to the price of food over the course of the year to really do this effectively, but starting a price book can help you immensely in your search to buy items when their prices are the lowest. (My book, The Pantry Primer, gives detailed instructions on tracking prices.)

Let’s go back to apples. If you buy them out of season, you’re going to pay the highest price of the year. However, if you buy them in season, the price will go down.

Better yet, if you buy them in season and store/preserve them to enjoy when the prices are at their peaks, then you will pay that lowest price all year long. You might store them in a root cellar, can some applesauce and apple pie filling, and dehydrate some slices for a crunchy snack. Our family spends at least two weeks processing apples to eat during the off-season. (Here’s an article from last year’s apple season that explains exactly how we make the most of several bushels of apples.)

Frugality is a survival skill

With the current economic instability, your ability to thrive on less is a survival skill that is just as important as being able to start a fire in the middle of a rainstorm with two sticks and a pile of leaves. As prices go up and employment goes down, something has to give, and that is most likely going to be your budget.

Learn now how to make the most of the money you have by using self-reliance skills and common sense to reduce your expenses.

These books can help you to learn a new way of looking at thrift and your frugal grocery budget.

What are your favorite grocery budgeting tips? Please share them in the comments below.

#Venezuela, #Socialist Paradise in #Collapse: “Rationing Food, Toliet Paper… Now Electricity”

May 2, 2016 by mac slavo

Welcome to Venezuela, the socialist paradise where many workers how have a five-day weekend, and everything is rationed because nothing works and the country has shifted in an all-out SHTF situation.

As Grindall61 sums up succinctly, this is why you do not want Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders of the United Nations running their life. Why? Because they are pushing sustainable development for everyone in the United States and on the planet, where resources are rationed, and your very existence is considered a blight on the planet.

Life in Venezuela means waiting hours in a line for supplies and necessities that aren’t even available to buy. It is a total nightmare:

Venezuela is rationing food, toilet paper, and now electricity. They are in a depression which is turning into a SHTF situation.

What keeps it going? Force by government agency:

Just think, California today is mandating cuts and rationing water because of the shortage, and more and more parts of life even in the U.S. will be regulated and controlled – all while the insiders and bureaucrats party on the taxpayer dime, and dance to fiddle music while the country burns.

It is has happened over and over again in history, and right now it is happening in Venezuela.

This is socialism in action, and socialism when it has failed.

Make no mistake, America is headed on the same path, unless things change.

H/t SGT Report.com

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SHTFplan and Mac Slavo www.shtfplan.com

#Colorado Sends Non- #Vaccinating Parents ILLEGAL Order to “ #Register Their Child With the State”

May 2, 2016 by mac slavo

Here’s the fraud of the State in action.

It seems that the Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment sent out a letter to parents demanding that those who have not vaccinated their children register them on a state website under requirement by law… the only problem is that there is no such law.

The agency has apologized, claiming the letter was sent out by mistake, but their intent was revealed anyway.

A law was proposed to require a “yellow star” registration process for families who don’t vaccinate… but the law did not make it out of committee. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the bill’s sponsors will give up.

via Off the Grid News:

A number of parents received a letter this month from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which said in the document that parents of unvaccinated children in school would be required to register and exempt their child through a state website.

[…]“My biggest issue is that you are trying to take my child’s information – that you have zero legislative authority to do – to track and to possibly come back to me,” parent Missy Frazier said, according to The Gazette newspaper. “Where does this end, and with whom are you going to share this information?”

It is hardly surprising that the school district is being accused of deliberately spreading the misconception that parents are legally required to comply.

But it certainly looked official when it went out: Here’s an image that was released of the letter:

That is already that standard line with childhood vaccines – creating the impression that they are required, when freedom over medical injections should be a personal decision protected by constitutional freedoms.

“I find it curious that the House has already killed 1164, whereas the health department has already implemented the provisions of 1164 in law on their website stating that by July 1, parents will be required to register online,” Lundberg said. “This online registration system is in complete violation of current statute. They don’t have the authority to require an online registration.”

“They want to populate the vaccine registry and they want to know exactly who’s exempting from which vaccines, where they live and I think it’s a harassment technique,” Theresa Wrangham of the National Vaccine Information Center told a Denver TV station.

Demanding data from people who opt out of any program in this country is akin to discriminating against them and allowing them to be targeted and tracked – and it is dangerous civil liberties, particularly as threats against non-vaccinating families is nothing new.

In particular, government agencies in general seem very disconcerted by the level of independence and rebellion by anti-vaxxers – there is every reason to think that they fear the herd will be spooked, and they could lose control over the masses.

When you consider that non-vaccinating parents are frequently treated as second-class citizens and targeted with misplaced anger about the spread of disease, it is not surprising that this law is being required – as California and other states have stepped up their pro-vaccine rhetoric and used the power of state mandates to pimp for Big Pharma.

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SHTFplan and Mac Slavo www.shtfplan.com

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