• A sloped roof;
• Rain gutters;
• Downspout;
• A filter to keep out or minimize debris such as leaves from clogging your system;
• A container for the water, like a trash can or barrel (rainwater barrels run about $100 retail, but savvy preppers look for discarded food barrels for a few bucks or even free);
• Secure container cover or screen so mosquitoes don’t breed in the water;
• And a method to get the water in the container to where you need it. A pail, a hand or mechanical pump, or simply a gravity fed hose.

• A Pre-Wash. The idea behind this step is to divert the first few gallons of rain water that washes off the roof containing bird droppings, chemical residue from pollution, sediment, etc., away from entering your water container;
• Ceramic and Carbon Filters. High quality filters can remove inorganic chemicals and many biological dangers. Read the manufacturer’s labels for details;
• Purification. These methods include reverse osmosis and/or Ultra Violet (UV) light to make certain even the smallest biological threats, like viruses, are dealt with.  Colloidal Silver has been used by NASA and many others to purify water for decades.

• Take the extra steps to keep your rain catchment system clear of debris and sediment, and protected from mosquito infestation. Even if you only plan to use the water in your garden, this will save you a few important steps if you run into a situation where you need the water for survival.
• It may be handy to own one or more hand-held water purifiers, like the Katadyn, which is often sold for camping. You can also find gravity fed counter top versions, such as the Big Berkey, that can purify gallons of water without physical effort. Read the manufacturer’s labels for effectiveness information.
• Boiling water can help kill many biological dangers, but may not help with all chemical or radiological pollutants. You might consider using a solar oven to boil water and save on energy and fuel.
• Distilling water and chemical treatment is proven effective for purifying water. Our Self-Reliance Mega Manual offers detailed instructions for different methods to distill water, and even how to use chlorine or iodine to treat water for drinking.

Sunday, November 11, 2012 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) Obama’s re-election has set a number of things in motion behind  closed doors that are about to emerge before the Summer of 2013. If anything,  Obama’s victory has accelerated the timeline of financial collapse that’s  now a foregone conclusion for the United States of America.

Here’s what I  see unfolding between now and mid-2013 (or before other dates as stated  below):

#1) December 21st, 2012 “Mayan Calendar” day will be a bust

Nothing  special will happen on this day other than lots of people meditating globally,  which is, in a way, a special thing all by itself. But the universe isn’t coming  to an end.
The day after the non-event, watch for the mainstream media to  blame “doomsday websites” for claiming doomsday was going to occur. In truth,  most alternative websites are claiming nothing much will happen on that  day.

#2) Before January 2, 2013, another huge fiat money creation scheme will be  initiated by the Fed to prevent a U.S. bankruptcy

The U.S. government won’t  be allowed to go bankrupt just yet. Although it has run out of money yet again  under the insane debt spending blowout of Obama, the debt ceiling will be raised  yet again, and the Fed will print new money to keep buying up U.S.  debt.
The long-term effect of this compounding debt spiral is, of course, financial suicide, but that doesn’t seem to occur to today’s zombified  voters who are really only concerned with how many handouts they can get  right NOW!

#3) Just like he did last year, Obama will use New Year’s Eve (or possibly  Christmas Eve) to sign another police state executive order

Last year, Obama  signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) executive order on New  Year’s Eve, cleverly burying news of the event underneath New Year’s  celebrations nationwide.
The NDAA gutted the Bill of Rights and turned  America into a bonafide police state, with no due process, no Fifth Amendment,  and no Bill of Rights. It authorized secret arrests, secret kill lists of  American citizens, and endless secret prison detainment without ever being  charged with a crime, among other things. It signified the complete destruction  of the Bill of Rights, and Obama signed it in  secret.
This year, he’ll use a similar holiday cover to sign some other  devastating executive order that, for example, criminalizes criticism of the  government (or something else similarly ridiculous).

#4) Massive food inflation will strike the USA beginning in February or  March

The droughts of 2012 will be felt via sticker shock at the grocery  stores beginning in the first quarter of 2013. Watch for not just price  increases on most products made with wheat and corn, but also shrinking food  package volumes so that manufacturers deliver less food in a similar-looking  package.
Manufacturers will “downsize” their packages, in other words,  while keeping prices the same. This is another way food inflation hits  home.

#5) The TSA will engage in a massive hiring spree and expansion into the  streets, running roadside checkpoints

Pedophiles unite! Buoyed by the Obama  surge, the TSA will ramp up its hiring and begin building a literal army of  pedophiles, thieves and psychopaths which will soon begin to appear across  the USA running roadside checkpoints.
I also predict that the vast  majority of Americans are now so brainwashed into a slave mentality that they  will gladly agree to TSA body cavity searches on the side of the road in  the name of “protecting us from terrorism.”
This isn’t mere conjecture. A  brilliant new survey commissioned by InfoWars has revealed that an  astonishing 35% of Americans would voluntarily wear “shock bracelets”  if required by the TSA in order to fly.
In addition, nearly one-third of  Americans would also accept body  cavity searches by the TSA as a prerequisite to flying. These disturbing  survey results reveal that roughly one-third of Americans have already  surrendered their dignity to a slave-inducing police state, and many would  actually smile in the name of “security” while they are being medically raped by  the TSA in the name of a completely  fabricated “war on terror” stolen straight out of the novel 1984.

#6) The expansion of the welfare state will kick into high gear with  explosive growth in food stamps and unemployment

Under Obama, food  stamps and unemployment claims have already experienced alarmingly worsening  numbers. Watch for things to get even worse as more Americans thrown out of  work by the failed  economic policies of the Obama administration sign up for free food and  paycheck entitlements from the government.
This is part of the plan, of  course: Gut the economy and make the population entirely dependent on  government. From there, it’s a slam-dunk to get elected as a socialist or even a  communist, and the U.S. economy begins to take on the look of a nation like  Venezuela or Argentina.

#7) A wave of unemployment will gut America’s economy as Obamacare causes  employers to fire workers en masse

As Obamacare kicks in (2013 and 2014),  employers will do three things to avoid going bankrupt under the financial  oppression of socialized health care:
1) FIRE more workers to reduce  overall business size. 2) REDUCE workers’ hours to below the government  mandated threshold for health care. 3) OFFSHORE more jobs to other  countries.
The net effect of this will be, predictably, millions more  Americans out of workor working two or three low-paying jobs, none of which  actually provide them the health care they were promised by Obama.

#8) A wave of crime seizes America

Following the mass layoffs and  slashing of employee hours, the nation will begin to see yet more families and  individuals in a state of economic desperation.
This will  inevitably lead to more crime as people turn to theft to try to make ends  meet. Watch for more copper thefts as well as more emboldened hit-and-run  crime tactics (such as motorcycles being driven through shopping malls, smashing  jewelry store cases and making off with the loot).
I predict you will see  more vehicles smashing through the front doors of retail stores, more home  burglaries and more muggings, especially in high-population cities where Obama’s  economic policies have the most devastating impact. Right now, Detroit  is already a “war zone” where police warn visitors not to enter the city,  and Chicago will soon join the ranks of cities where gangs run rampant,  outnumbering police by a wide margin.

#9) Another radiological scare will erupt as Fukushima’s fuel polls suffer  continued structural failure

This is not a sure thing, but chances are that Fukushima’s  remaining structure will suffer a partial or total collapse within the next  year, causing an unprecedented release of radiation that will reach U.S.  shores.
This could happen at any moment, technically, thanks to another  earthquake or tsunami. Even a typhoon could cause sufficient damage to topple a  large fuel containment pool. For some inexplicable reason, nuclear fuel pools  are stored above ground in the Fukushima facility, making them highly  susceptible to environmental damage.

#10) Massive government crackdowns on the free speech of anyone advocating  liberty

Watch for free speech to be increasingly called “hate speech” when  it criticizes the government or advocates liberty. Watch for renewed efforts to  censor internet sites that advocate liberty and freedom. You may see Google  removing such sites from its search engine.

YouTube  will get even more aggressive at banning videos that teach liberty, and the  mainstream media will continue to pound propaganda into the minds of the  mainstream zombies, teaching them that people who believe in liberty are somehow  “terrorists.”
In fact, the next four years will be a tumultuous time for  the free speech of those who criticize government and Obama. At the same time,  the “free speech” of those who threaten conservatives with violence will be  completely tolerated, if not encouraged. Even right now, it  is publicly acceptable to make threats of violence against conservative white  people, but never against liberal black people.
This double standard  will get even worse over the next year or so, to the point where you’ll see TV  pundits and comedians like Bill Maher or Michael Moore openly advocating the  arrest and killing of anyone who does not believe in Obammunism. The rhetoric of  violence is just a preview of what’s coming in the physical realm.
The  NDAA, of course, gives Obama the “right” to pursue precisely those actions: No  judge, no jury and not even a warrant required!

A revolution is in America’s future

This is all the prelude to the  coming “Cultural Revolution” in America, where the political left will soon call  for the mass culling of all survivalists, independent farmers, and anyone who  follows a lifestyle of self-reliance. Individuality will be seen as a threat to  the leftist collective, and those who do not bow down to the power of the police  state will not only be arrested and terminated; the mainstream media will CHEER  the entire process through hate propaganda disguised as “protecting America  from terrorism.”
To help pull this off, a false flag event will almost  certainly be staged that depicts some hapless gun owner as a crazy person who  poses a threat to society. Watch for another Colorado-style mass shooting, or  the bombing of a government building followed by the immediate blaming of a  convenient patsy. All the usual suspects on talk radio will also be blamed for  it: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage and so on.

What you can do to protect yourself during this rise of terrible  evil

There is little question now that those who believe in the real America  are sooner or later going to have to take a stand against the Obammunism agenda  and the endless hoards of “useless eaters” who now only exist to feed off the  government (while confiscating as much wealth from the producers as  possible).
How and when this actually happens is anybody’s guess, but it  will likely take many years to completely unfold.
I’ve always advocated  non-violent revolutions via the ballot box, but at this point it’s obvious that  those who suck the economy dry through never-ending handouts are now the voting  majority. They now outnumber the innovators, the entrepreneurs and the  productive citizens of society. From here, it’s only a downward spiral as  citizens repeatedly vote themselves more and more handouts until the entire  system collapses in both financial and cultural ruin. As Ron Paul recently said,  “America is far gone.”
“We’re over the cliff,” Ron Paul recently said on Bloomberg  Television. “People do not want anything cut. They want all the bailouts to  come. They want the Fed to keep printing the money. And they don’t believe that  we’ve gone off the cliff or are close to going off the cliff. They think we can  patch it over, that we can somehow come up with some magic solution. But you  can’t have a budgetary solution if you don’t change what the role of government  should be. As long as you think we have to police the world and run this welfare  state, all we are going to argue about is who will get the  loot.”
Preventing the total economic destruction of America will now  require a Ron Paul Revolution, where tens of millions of Americans march  in the streets and demand an end to out-of-control government and all its evils.  Yet, the U.S. government has designated the very act of marching in the streets  as an “act of terrorism,” so these protests would almost immediately escalate  into a shooting war.
We are nowhere near the point where the population  at large is awake enough to engage in such actions, by the way. Things are  going to get much worse before they get better.
The next four years  are going to be like watching an economic train wreck in super-slow  motion, augmented by bursts of police state activity, censorship clamp-downs  and of course increased government confiscation of everything you own: Land,  money and even formerly private companies.
Today, we are living in an  occupied nation, where the vast majority of those who claim to be running  the country are, in reality, enemies of the state. They are dismantling,  day by day, America’s economy, America’s workforce, America’s industries and  even American pride. What will be left in four more years will be nothing but a  shadow of the great America we once knew.

Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/037915_Health_Ranger_predictions_2013.html#ixzz2BxyumxXo

By Toby Connor

TIME TO BUY, BUY, BUY

Posted: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Miners should deliver even bigger  gains as I expect them to break out of the bull flag that’s been forming  over the last 4 weeks and generate a 25-30% rally to test their all-time  highs.

We are moving into one of those rare  buying opportunities that only come around once or twice a year. This is  that point I warned about in my last post where one has to ignore  the media and nonsense about QE3 not working. It is going to work, and  it is going to work extremely well. I fully expect it to drive gold to  $4000 by mid 2014.

This is purely a profit taking event,  nothing more. These situations happen like clock work about every 20-25 weeks, as  you can see in the chart below. Gold is now very late in the timing band  for that major cycle bottom.

• Coffee and tea – people love their morning beverages and will place a high trade value on such comfort items.
• Hygiene supplies – everything from toothbrushes to bar soap to lip balm can be useful for barter.
• Disposable lighters – These are cheap to buy, but can be very useful for trading purposes in a survival situation.
• First aid supplies – aspirin, Neosporin, bandages… they’re all good. Just be sure you keep enough on hand for you and your family.
• Smoking is stupid, yet the make-your-own-cigarette kits at local smoke shops can be quite useful for trade and barter.
• Hard candy – sure to be of interest when much of the population is living on subsistence rations.

 

CURRENT SILVER PRICE (SLV)

After topping out in April of 2011 at $48 per ounce, silver has been in a correction until it recently broke through the down trend line (straight blue).  Current weakness in silver is not another market top.  All the reasons for higher silver prices are firmly in place.

$208 PER OUNCE SILVER (SLV)

Based on past history, gold normally trades at 12 to 15 times the price of silver.  This ratio is expected to return to normal in the near future with a rise in the price of gold to $2500 per ounce.

$1750 gold / 12 = $146 per ounce silver.

$2500 gold  / 12 = $208 per ounce silver.

INVESTING IN SILVER

SLV is the most popular silver ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) and approximates the price of silver.  Go to the Commerce / Finance Planning Worksheet for better ways to invest in silver.  The best Exchange Traded Funds are backed by physical bullion rather than paper contracts.

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(NaturalNews) Called a “monster storm,” Hurricane Sandy is much more than a  hurricane. It’s a hybrid monster storm system that weather experts are  now warning could cause $1 billion in damage when it strikes the U.S. eastern  seaboard early Tuesday morning.
If you’re living anywhere near  Philadelphia, Boston, Delaware or surrounding states, you have a very limited  window of opportunity to get ready with everything you’ll need to ride out this  storm. That’s the purpose of this article: To give you an emergency preparedness  checklist for surviving this “monster storm.”
Even if you don’t leave  nearby, this storm can serve as an important reminder: We must ALL be prepared  for unexpected events, or we can easily be caught empty-handed.

A long-lasting event: 2-3 days of being hammered by Mother  Nature

Hurricane Sandy is not some simple hurricane that blows through in  one night and then is over. “It’s going to be a long-lasting event, two to three  days of impact for a lot of people,” said  James Franklin of the National Hurricane Center in Miami. “Wind  damage, widespread power outages, heavy rainfall, inland flooding and somebody  is going to get a significant surge event.”
Given that it usually takes  another 2-3 days for cleaning up city streets after a massive snowfall event,  this means the following:
!! You need to have a 6-day food and water  supply ready right now! !!
That’s 3 days for the storm and 3 days for  cleanup. And that’s if nothing else goes terribly wrong. In a worst case  scenario, this could extend to 7 – 10 days in some of the harder-hit  areas.

Local grocery stores are already sold out of essential items

Anthony  Gucciardi of NaturalSociety.com  lives in the area expected to be hit by this super storm. Here’s his firsthand  report from earlier today:
Major grocery stores in the area have  completely sold out of essential items like batteries, bottled water, and even  highly processed snack foods that do not require preparation or refrigeration. I  personally went to purchase a few minor items for my preparedness  kit from a local grocery outlet that is quite large and witnessed completely  empty shelves within the aisle that generally contains large amounts of water  bottles along with gallon jugs, and various glass sparkling water  bottles. The aisle that houses the batteries (particularly the heavy duty kind  used for most flashlights) was also almost entirely dry. When shopping I also  saw several individuals with the government-approved ‘survival’ checklist,  striking off the items one by one as they acquired them.
Last year’s  hurricane Irene prompted somewhat of a response from locals within the  Philadelphia and New York City area in regards to preparation and concern, but  this hurricane has generated one that is far more severe. It is conservative to  say that by the end of this weekend going into the storm (assuming it does hit  as predicted), most if not all local stores will be out of most essential and  even non-essential items. And this is just a few days after the news of the  storm hit the mainstream media.
See my complete preparedness  checklist, below…

Staying warm

Another huge concern with all this is the possibility that the power may be out. As temperatures drop, this could put many people in  the position of having to endure very cold indoor temperatures. This lacking of  heating could endure for many days, even as long as two weeks in some  areas.
The best defense against the cold is, of course, to have good  shelter (a roof over your head), warm clothing and extra sleeping bags for all  family members.
Do NOT plan on using propane heaters indoors as these are  a health hazard and a fire hazard when used indoors. Same story with  candles.

Water: Do you have enough?

Imagine a week without tap water. Now you’re  starting to get the picture of what may be coming.
If this storm hits as  promised, you’re going to be living in third-world conditions for about a  week. Most Americans have never lived in a third-world country like I have, so  they’ve never really tried to live without running water, electricity, grocery  stores, and so on. (It’s no fun, believe me. Nothing like a cold sponge shower  to wake you up in the morning, eh?)
You’ll need a MINIMUM of 2 gallons  per day, per person, stored in your home or apartment. So if there are two of  you living there, and you’re planning for six days without running water, you  will need 24 gallons of water stored, got it?
How can you store  that much water?
• Fill your bathtub(s) with water. • Fill empty  containers with water and set them aside: Milk jugs, soda bottles, jars,  buckets, coolers, etc. • Buy water storage bags and fill them
Make  sure you have a home water filter that doesn’t need water pressure to operate: A gravity filter or hand-pumped filteris best. I like the Katadyn  brand for portable water filters.

Is your immune system ready?

If you think about the stresses put on you  by a disaster scenario, many of them impact your health:
• Sleep  deprivation • Adrenal gland depletion • Stress-induced nutrient  depletion • Stress from cold temperatures • Possible spread of infectious  disease • Anxiety
All of these can be prevented, in part, with immune-boosting nutrition. So this is a time when you really want to  boost your intake of superfoods, immune-boosting herbs and nutritional  supplements. You want to make sure your body is ready for the stresses and  uncertainties it will soon be experiencing.
Remember: Good nutrition will  also help you think better, because food affects your brain function. The  cleaner your diet, the clearer your thoughts, and the better decisions you’ll  make in a crisis.

Staying physically safe

Do you have a fire extinguisher? Fire trucks  won’t be able to get to your house during a storm, and indoor fires can rage out  of control for hours or days before help arrives. So make sure you have at least  one fully-charged fire extinguisher at the ready.
What about physical  safety? Do you have a way to defend yourself and your family in case looters  start going door to door, demanding money, jewelry and anything else they want?  Remember, if the power grid goes down, all the street lights will be off,  too, plunging your city and neighborhood into darkness. Criminals love  darkness. In their minds, that’s time to “loot and  pillage.”
Massachusetts is very much an anti-gun state, meaning only the citizens are disarmed, but not the criminals. When the police are too  busy responding to other emergencies, the green light is on for armed criminals  to go door to door, robbing (disarmed) citizens at gunpoint. This doesn’t fly in  Texas, where the average looter is met with a 12 gauge shotgun shoved in his  face, but in Boston, it’s a free-for-all for the criminals.
Even if you  don’t own a gun (or can’t legally own one), you can still have bear pepper  spray — a large-sized canister of pressurized pepper spray which will  strongly dissuade bad guys from hanging around and bothering you. (Check your  local laws, please.)
Forget about calling 911. Virtually all emergency services will be  tied up dealing with other emergencies. Just because YOU have an emergency  doesn’t mean it’s THEIR emergency. By law, fire, police and ambulance services  are under no legal obligation whatsoever to respond to your call. Think  about that as you plan for preparedness.
For me personally, I don’t call  911 and wait to die. Instead, I call on Mr. Benelli. If you don’t know what “Mr.  Benelli” means, here’s a picture that explains why Mr. Benelli instantly stops  all looters: http://www.benelliusa.com/shotguns/benelli-m4.php

Hurricane Sandy “monster storm” survival checklist by Mike Adams, the Health  Ranger

I’ve taught preparedness to tens of thousands of people, so I know  this subject very well. Here’s my preparedness checklist, and then below it, I  link to some of my preparedness courses and solutions if you’re interested in  those:
• Minimum 6 days of stored food. • A way to safely boil water  so you can prepare food. • Non-electric can openers. • Minimum 6 days of  stored water. • Portable water filter. • Full fuel tanks in all your  vehicles. • Gasoline and cords for your generator (if you have one). • Sleeping bags for all family members. • Flashlights and batteries. • Minimum 6-day supply of any prescription meds. • Colloidal silver and other  emergency medicine items. • Cell phones full charged, with spare  batteries. • Minimum one large fully-charged fire extinguisher. • Plenty  of clean laundry with warm socks, undies and heavy clothing. • Backup power  source: large 12V marine (deep cycle) battery with an inverter to charge cell  phones and laptops. • Sponges for cleaning things when there’s no power. • Cleaning agents: Hand soap, dish soap and bleach. • Immune boosting herbal  tinctures and supplements. • Topical first aid supplies: Antiseptics,  bandages, etc. • Personal hygiene items, including toilet paper. • Emergency multi-purpose knife. • Activities to pass the time when there’s no  TV: books, cards, games, etc. • Copies of your important paperwork and  identification documents. • Two-way radios for you and your family members to  communicate. • Wind-up weather radio so you can tune in to government  broadcasts. • CB broadcasting radio so you can call for help if the cell  towers are down. • Nuclear preparedness: Do you have potassium iodide  pills? • Hiding stuff: Do you have good hiding places in your home in case  criminals break in and overpower you? • Pet preparedness: Do you have enough  food and water for your animals? • Go bag: Do you have a “bug out bag” ready  in case you have to evacuate? • Hiking gear: What happens if you have to  leave on foot? – Cold weather hiking shoes – Rugged backpack – A good  hat to protect you from the elements – Local map and compass – Water  carrying containers (and a way to carry them) – Portable food – Weather-proof writing notepad – Flashlights – Identification – Portable  self defense items
• Security plans for your neighborhood or building:  How will you defend against looters? • Physical barriers to block doors and  windows: Are your windows locked? • Tripwire alert devices and motion alert  devices (see course, below). • Self defense items to defend against possible  looters: – If firearms, double check your ammo, firearm lubrication and  sights. – Have a challenge / response code word with your family members so  that you can identify each other in the dark. For example, if you say “Flash”  they should say “Thunder” in response. – Drill all safety procedures in the  home. Children should know in advance where a “safe hiding place” is  located. – Emergency whistles for all children or senior citizens so they can  call for help.
Does this sound like a long preparedness list? It’s  nothing, actually, compared to what many preppers, patriots and survivalists  have already accomplished. I’m not afraid to say publicly that my own personal  preparedness plans have gone far beyond the list you see above. If a three-day  hurricane struck my home right now, I would be completely prepared without even  making a trip to the store for supplies.

Emergency readiness products

Here are the best products we’ve put  together so far for emergency preparedness:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Most  delivery services are shut down Monday and Tuesday across the eastern seaboard,  so if you are trying to order these products to have them delivered before  Tuesday, that won’t work. UPS, Fedex, and the U.S. Postal Service will all be  shut down during the storm.
• Sovereign  Silver first aid gel • Sovereign  Silver liquid hydrosol • 100%  organic 40-day survival food supply • Enerhealth Herbal Medicine  Cabinets: Basic  | Intermediate  | Advanced • Nascent  Atomic Iodine • Zeotrex  (zeolites) • Emergency ruggedized  flashlights and other supplies
Coming soon at the Natural  News Store: Storable certified organic food (including chia seeds),  chlorella, potassium iodide pills, water filters and more.

Preparedness and survival courses

By now, most Natural News readers are  fully aware that I’m well versed in the realm of preparedness. In addition to  having in-depth knowledge of herbal medicine and nutritional defenses, I have  also been licensed to carry concealed handguns by four different U.S. states,  and I’ve been fingerprinted, vetted and approved by the FBI and federal law  enforcement agencies. I have trained with U.S. military personnel on  hand-to-hand combat, I’ve trained on vehicle evasion and pursuit tactics with  local law enforcement, and I have helped teach physical self defense to  children, women and senior citizens.

Learn more:  http://www.naturalnews.com/037716_Hurricane_Sandy_emergency_preparedness_checklist.html#ixzz2AYBR3IdF

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