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7 Surprising Reasons Why Americans Aren’t Prepared for What’s Coming
Survival Sherpa ^ | 3/13/12 | Todd Walker

Posted on 03/12/2013 6:00:02 PM PDT by Kartographer

A) Peer Pressure B) Government Schools C) Dependence D) MBM (Morally Bankrupt Morons) E) Nationalism F) Mental Enslavement G) Stifled Self-government

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KEYWORDS: normalcybias; preparedness; preppers
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To: dsutah

This one was called: “The Shelter”;


Thanks, if i get a chance i will watch it.


121 posted on 03/13/2013 12:27:46 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: PA Engineer

Here is a direct link to Panic In The Year Zero on YouTube. Interesting movie.


Thanks PA, i have had that movie for two or three years, i had watched it when it came out in the sixties and liked it.


122 posted on 03/13/2013 12:32:43 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: dsutah; ravenwolf

High quality video. Three parts. “The Shelter”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj2yuoC3PY&playnext=1&list=PLc5Nu_v914u7MqEyuONXOLjKCocrZdZpr&feature=results_main


123 posted on 03/13/2013 12:37:04 PM PDT by rw4site (Little men want Big Government!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Sorry but now you’re just plain lying. Carson is credited with starting the modern environmental movement. If that’s not being taken seriously then nothing has ever been take seriously.

And you’re going to say that in a world where the federal government made movies like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cWtVyHwMnM
nobody took nuclear war seriously?! Really. Some estimates say about 200,000 private bomb shelters had been built by 1965. And that’s not even getting into the large number of public buildings that got inspected by the government to get the little yellow and black sign (every mall I ever stepped foot in during the 70s and 80s, and every government building, most of those buildings are still up but the signs are gone).

Sorry but reality is reality and reality is 50 solid years of a good chunk of people saying the S is going to HTF soon. And all your ridiculous lies to the contrary won’t change that fact. Now go away, life is too short for liars and we both now how you will continue this conversation.


124 posted on 03/13/2013 12:39:00 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: papertyger; Marcella
Marcella, you and I have never quite seen eye-to-eye, but after reading your post, I have to say you are one extraordinary woman. Not at all what many of your posts lead me to believe.

Is that a double-edged compliment? ;)

I've found her posts to be very informative, both in specific prepping guidelines but also in maintaining the right attitude and perspective. The latter will prove more important as time goes on.
125 posted on 03/13/2013 12:53:49 PM PDT by yorkiemom
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To: discostu

Only the idiots were with you and your foolish fears.

One needs to be able to discern reality.


126 posted on 03/13/2013 1:52:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Here’s the problem with your addiction to lies and insults: you’re always looking for the next insult and not bothering to actually READ. I never said I believed any of it, I simply pointed out that this drumbeat has existed, and been played heavily in the press for 50 years. In fact had you bothered to notice me calling that drumbeat a cult and clap trap you’d have been able to see I DON’T believe it and never did. But that would require you to pay attention and not post drunk, and you would lose an opportunity to throw insults and lie, and we wouldn’t want that.

Now really, begone you lying insulting waste of bytes. You’ve lost all your usefulness, you are now merely a self mocking parody.


127 posted on 03/13/2013 2:17:04 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: discostu

You always amplify stupidity here, whether you believe it or not, I really don’t care. It’s just terribly defiling of the entire site to have your constant invocation of less-than-brilliant thought.

Just what is it that draws you to such?


128 posted on 03/13/2013 2:25:00 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

What draws me is the intelligent interesting conversations I have with people not you. Then you show up with your drunken ramblings and provide comic relief.

Meanwhile you do realize of course that by fleeing from the actual topic you’ve admitted I was right don’t you? Thanks for playing, hope the hangover isn’t too bad.


129 posted on 03/13/2013 2:30:59 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: discostu

Chances are you don’t even realize what a fool you’ve made of yourself.


130 posted on 03/13/2013 2:38:22 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

I’m not the one that said nobody thought nuclear war was a possibility. Turn up the brightness on your monitor, it’ll lower the reflection rate and you’ll see less dumbness.


131 posted on 03/13/2013 2:39:43 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: ladyjane

fresh chicken manure is not usable for fertilizer...Its full of ammonia. If you ever have cleaned out a coop, the ammonia will have tears falling down your cheeks within 5 minutes....might be ok if left to dryout for a year. chickens manure if full of urine, they don’t have the ability to pee due to their having no urinary track equipment...Its pee and poo at the same time...


132 posted on 03/13/2013 2:58:21 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton
Interesting. It certainly is more up in the air with 0bummer running things as he may keep the US on the sidelines.
What would the worst case scenario be do you think?

I think Obama would just make useless noises and stir up some dust as long as Israel was getting the worst of the battle.

But he would use every resource available to force a cease-fire the second it became clear Israel was rebounding or gaining the upper hand.


133 posted on 03/13/2013 3:00:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro (I miss America, don't you?)
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To: discostu

Those of us that had vision of the full picture knew that nuclear war was nobody’s goal, and would profit no one, while using it as a means of building a political power base was quite rewarding, thus saw that there was no probable threat.

You of the left slope of the curve must live tormented lives.


134 posted on 03/13/2013 3:05:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Just because it wasn’t anybody’s goal doesn’t mean we never got close. Sometimes world leaders screw up, especially when they’re kind of loopy like Khrushchev, or just plane dumb like Kennedy; there’s a handful of times during the Cold War that with one less smart guy in one room the jig is up. Or maybe they weren’t so smart, game theory of the Cold War was always the same, because you couldn’t trust the other side not to and the side that launched first was the only one with even a slight chance of survival game theory said the only smart move was to launch immediately and completely. So maybe dumber heads prevailed.

I never worried because there was nothing I could do about it, especially living in Tucson a high value target, there was no nuclear war survival plan here, we assumed we’d be hit hard if it happened. All doom drumbeats get put into one of two categories for me: credible but nothing I can do about it, not credible so who cares. Subsequently I’ve never worried because there’s no point to it. Other people worry though, it’s a popular thing. It’s why the Carson’s and the Ehrlich’s of the world make the fat cash being wrong every time they open their mouths. We’ve got a lot of preppers on this thread, and this site. Not me, I don’t worry. It’s a 50 year drumbeat, not everybody dances to it, but everybody hears it, whether you’re willing to admit it or not. Most of folks get bored of it, even if they believe it they grow weary, which is why preppers are a minority.


135 posted on 03/13/2013 3:26:51 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: rw4site

High quality video. Three parts. “The Shelter”


Thanks, i book marked it so i can play it if and when i can get some sound on this thing.


136 posted on 03/13/2013 3:32:40 PM PDT by ravenwolf
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To: discostu

>> “ or just plane dumb like Kennedy” <<

.
Bleep!

Kennedy paid with his life for demanding the tax cuts that saved our economy from the ultimate crash, and that was a SHTF that the MSM wouldn’t even touch. It was total blackout on reality.

You are a sheep’s sheep.


137 posted on 03/13/2013 3:36:25 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

But he didn’t understand anything about foreign policy, or dealing with the military. The whole Cuban Missile Crisis was because he mishandled the situation in Turkey. The closest we ever came to nuclear was entirely because he didn’t understand his own job. He was dumb. And no nobody assassinated him over a tax cut, that’s just silly. Funny all this time you were insulting me for being paranoid (because you couldn’t bother read the fact that I don’t buy into doom and gloom), and then YOU go the paranoid conspiracy route on Kennedy. Barrel of laughs ES, barrel of laughs.


138 posted on 03/13/2013 3:39:56 PM PDT by discostu (Not just another moon faced assassin of joy.)
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To: goat granny

That is true. But I guess most “fresh” fertlizer has to be cured for a year or so before becoming useful. It’s too hot and burns up the vegetation.

Stupid side story...I bought some chicken manure at the nursery several years ago. It was in a plastic bag. The stupid part of the story is that I failed to get it out of the trunk of the car for 24 hours...during the summer. I really thought I was going to have to sell the car. The stench was horrible...and the plastic bad deteriorated!


139 posted on 03/13/2013 3:58:30 PM PDT by berdie
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To: discostu

We were not close to nuclear war.

There were no alerts at any nuclear launch site; there were no carrier groups moved, just increased surveilance of cuba.


140 posted on 03/13/2013 4:28:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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