Does your state have a tax holiday for preppers?

It’s easy to get wrapped up in big picture problems when you start preparing your family.  It can be nearly cult like with your gangs for the EMP or the penultimate natural disaster. Even the zombie apocalypse is gaining a bit of a following. Still, as fun and motivating as it is to get locked and loaded for the “big one” it’s important not to get taken out by the smaller sure thing.

      “If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”

 Sun Tzu

The reason I am bringing this up is because we are quickly approaching hurricane season. I myself have been caught off guard by hurricanes in the past. Even with the news coverage they receive they can often make radical shifts over the ocean. This could put them on a crash course with your life when earlier in the week you thought it would swing back into the Atlantic.

My wonderful state of Virginia is offering up a tax holiday for hurricane preparedness items.  This is an incredible opportunity for those of you who need to make some upgrades or fill some gaps in your plan and preparation.

I have also found similar programs available in states like Florida, Louisiana and Alabama. I believe this is a program that every state should take up. Perhaps a topic for another podcast of I Am Liberty might be to push the tax holiday for every state in the union as we are all subject to some sort of disaster and should be prepared. The way I look at it is one tax free weekend would save an excess of billions for damage control and aid to those unprepared.

If your state does not participate in some sort of disaster preparedness tax holiday please contact your reps. I will be talking more about this subject on my podcast I Am Liberty Friday night at http://www.prepperbroadcasting.com

I can only speak to the Virginia items that are available for the exemption so here is our list.

$1,000 or less

• Portable generators and generator power cords

• Inverters and inverter power cables

$60 or less

• Artificial ice, blue ice, ice packs and reusable ice

• Batteries (excluding automobile or boat batteries)

o AAA, AA, C and D size

o 6- or 9-volt

o Cell phone batteries

• Any battery-powered light sources ,including

flashlights, lanterns and glow sticks — no candles

• Tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, plastic drop cloths and

other flexible waterproof sheeting

• Bungee cords and rope

• Ground anchor systems or tie down kits

• Ratchet straps

• Duct tape

• Carbon monoxide detectors

• Smoke detectors

• Fire extinguishers

• Empty gas, propane or diesel fuel tanks or containers

• Water storage containers, including buckets, barrels,

canteen, cans, cooler

• Nonelectric food storage coolers

• Bottled water, any size and number of bottles,

including flavored, carbonated and vitamin water

• Manual can openers

• Battery-powered or hand-crank radios (including

radios with an electrical power option)

• Two-way radios

• Weather band radios and NOAA Weather Radios

• Storm shutter devices that are made, rated and

marketed specifically for the prevention of storm

damage to windows — no plywood

• Cell phone chargers

• First aid kits

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I Am Liberty Friday 05/10/13 great guest

http://prepperbroadcasting.com/2013/05/10/jennifer-osuch-are-we-crazy-or-what/

The wonderful Jennifer Osuch of arewecrazyorwhat.net  joins us on I Am Liberty. Not ex military, spec ops or federal agent no, something even better. A ranking much more powerful than any of the aforementioned…..concerned mother. I believe we should look at everything we do through as many eyes as possible. You know you learn from everyone you meet. Well, Jen pushes out some great information or her site. Her diet and nutrition plans are very unique from a preppers stand point. I think you will enjoy her.

All that plus the mindless ramblings of a young man lost in the haze of this wimpy new world.

Getting your voice heard in the most unusual way

this is a post from a listener and man who has taken on the task of contributing to the Reroot USA movement. Thank you Eric for your help. Great Article. It reminds me of my days in a heavy metal band in high school  We hung flyers for all of our little shows and ya know what…It worked!

    Most recently I posted in the forums at RerootUSA about ways to contact your Governor, Congressmen/women, and Senators in ways that don’t require you to use your voice. Email and social media has become such a huge part of our society, we actually have better platforms to make our voices heard more often than before. There is any leaving messages and waiting for office hours, we can bombard our elected officials’ mailboxes and websites with our opinions at anytime of the day or night. But we have other more classic ways to get that message out to our communities.

I speak rather well to people whenever I feel the need to express my opinion regarding local politics. I do my homework about my elected officials (and they are mine whether I’ve voted for them or not). In my opinion, I don’t think people are immediately uncomfortable when talking about politics, I think they become uneasy when I show my confidence in my opinion being the right one. I think people get flustered when they are unable to compete in a debate and choose to not talk about it. So my thoughts went to Thomas Paine, and the 18th century style of the pamphlet.

    When I read books from modern day conservatives (Glenn Beck is a particular favorite), they are riddled with facts that contradict the current Administration and the MSM. Now, there is no way I’m going to get my neighbors to read Glenn Beck. Besides living in a majority Democrat state, most people barely read the newspaper or news sites anymore, much less read an entire book, filled with political opinion. So my first thought was to gather some of these facts with a handful of sites to back them up, and a small paragraph, and turn them into a flyer. Making copies is usually easy for most of us, either in the home, or sneaking it through work. I would take a handful of these copies to parts of town (usually not near my home) where these facts need to be spread. Pick a grocery store or a mall parking lot and drop a handful under wiper blades. Be quick and get moving, or you risk someone asking questions, or learning your identity. Never show a pattern like using the same day of the week, or the same lots several weeks in a row, make a point to move around. This takes just a few minutes a week to complete, and if only one person picks it up and reads it, you might get through. Bring a copy with you to a restaurant and leave it on the table after you go. There are little subtle places you can leave a copy, what’s the worst that can happen? They’ll throw it out. It’s a small price to pay.

    If you’re looking to spend a little more money (not much), you can have your own bumper stickers made up. Three to four word sayings (ex. Jobs Not Amnesty) that express what you want to say. Maybe advertising for a website that you think is worthy of your time and money (ex. RerootUSA). Slap these stickers on a random light pole somewhere when no one is looking. It’ll get wet and eventually fall off, or some raging liberal will attempt to peel it off and end up tearing it up, but people sitting in traffic will see it, and a few of them might actually visit the site. I see stickers for bands all over the street signs in Chicago where I’m from, and it has an effect.

    These things will take more of your time than money, but it’s a small price to pay to get your message heard. Not everyone can articulate the conservative message the way a Beck/Limbaugh can, and no one is expecting you to. But if you’re confident what you’re doing is right, these little tactics will help you feel like you’ve done your part. We all want to participate, even if it’s just a flyer on the car window. Progressives and liberals are working 365 to continue their march toward atheizing destroying this country, and we are responsible if this comes to fruition.

 

ekennedy74

Twitter: @ekennedy74

Preppers: Ready, Come What May

Read the full article that accompanied the video here

I know, all is vanity but I think this is a fair outside view of the prepper movement

Wanna know what the media is thinking about preppers. I think the idea has changed drastically. I see people actually taking to the idea as opposed to shying from it. Thats good news to me! Could prepping be the most harmless investment that any one person can make? If you bet right you a head up in any bad situation. If you are wrong you have learned incredible skills and worst case scenario you donate your food  to the local food bank. Who we hurting people? Tell me.

http://www.newsleader.com/videonetwork/2351069618001/Preppers-Ready-Come-What-May

Canned fish, mercury and your food storage

The EPA itself has gone on record about limiting the intake of canned albacore tuna. Nearly prohibiting the product for young children and woman who are pregnant or may become pregnant.

So what does this mean for your food storage? Well, fish is an important part of any diet but dangerous mercury levels could do more harm than good. It can destroy the nervous system if the accumulations are too great. So I am going to answer two questions for you in this article.

1.) What types of canned fish can I eat that won’t cause irreparable damage to my nervous system due to mercury content.

2.) What species of canned fish are safe to store and eat.

Aside from being an absolute powerhouse of nutrition canned fish is also incredibly shelf stable. A can of wild salmon purchased today may not go out of date till 2017! On top of that, canned foods that aren’t highly acidic can last 5 year’s passed the best buy date. Beyond that you risk deterioration of the cans inner lining and direct contact with food inside and the aluminum

Consumer Reports:

 

Results from our tuna tests, conducted at an outside lab, underscore the longheld concern for those people. We found:

• Every sample contained measurable levels of mercury, ranging from 0.018 to 0.774 parts per million. The Food and Drug Administration can take legal action to pull products containing 1 ppm or more from the market. (It never has, according to an FDA spokesman.) The EPA compiles fish advisories when state and local governments have found high contaminant levels in certain locally caught fish.
• Samples of white tuna had 0.217 to 0.774 ppm of mercury and averaged 0.427 ppm. By eating 2.5 ounces of any of the tested samples, a woman of childbearing age would exceed the daily mercury intake that the EPA considers safe.
• Samples of light tuna had 0.018 to 0.176 ppm and averaged 0.071 ppm. At that average, a woman of childbearing age eating 2.5 ounces would get less than the EPA’s limit, but for about half the tested samples, eating 5 ounces would exceed the limit.

 

Now let’s talk fish. Mercury build up happens overtime. Thus your bigger species will have accumulated much more mercury than smaller species.If you can imagine large predatory fish like tuna, shark and tilefish take time to grow so big. Meanwhile they are eating tons of smaller fish which also contain levels of mercury. Over time these large predators store up frightening amounts of mercury througout their bodies. I will make it easy on you with a list of dangerous fish. Not only canned but also fresh.

• Do not eat Shark, Swordfish, King Mackerel, or Tilefish
• Five of the most commonly eaten fish that are low in mercury are shrimp, canned light tuna, salmon, pollock, and catfish.

Source, source, source. This is the key. Shrimp can be just as dangerous, if not more so, when yanked from dirty foreign waters that are out of any forsight. Just cuz its dehydrated or freeze dried or canned with a pretty label does not make it safe. Keep these things in mind when considering your food storage purchases going forward. I mean we are doing these things t keep our familys safe right?

 

What the May 1st Silver Buy Means to You

There is a movement afoot. We are just days away from the first attack of its kind on the fiat manipulation of silver pricing. On May 1st 2013 the silver stacking community as well as individuals will an attempt to topple the house of cards trading system for precious metals. The method will be, with the help of each person, to make a purchase in silver the day of May 1st. In theory this would cripple the paper market for silver. The groups want to see this false market show its hand.

So that’s that. I wont go to deep because the video explains it all much better than I can. The important question for us is: what does this mean for low yield buys like most of us out there. The 1-5 oz per month or less. Well it means no matter what the outcome silver will be even harder to come by. I am on a waiting list at both of the coins shops I frequent. Whether they are shielding from loss or the demand is just so high you better believe this will affect availability. What it will do to the price is anyones guess because it is not an accurate pricing structure.

Lets get down to lamens terms. Do you snub your car payment for a large silver purchase on or before May 1st? I wouldn’t but that’s your decision to make. These folks are in the business of selling silver and I simply don’t see them just not selling it all of a sudden. Will there be delays? Of course. The silver and the furby are not much different when it comes to supply and demand.

My advice would be at the very least buy on the 1st. Place an online order so the system feels it. This is an important movement. I believe it will tell us a lot. If you keep your ear to the precious metals world you know that a movement like this will show someones hand. Whether it is the falsified trade price or the fact that the silver stackers were out on the fringe trying to find that perfect investment. Either way pay attention to the market before and after May 1st.

If you are anything like me you want to KNOW things. Not so much into speculation. I watch a lot of  boxing and combat sports. The ring is a place where you simply cant run from the truth. Its black and white within those boundary lines. If you didnt train enough it shows, when your off-balance it shows and there is nothing you can do. Watch the silver market its about to take a strong left hook. Will it absorb the hit unflinchingly or will it be down for the count? There will be much to learn from observing this event.

Don’t sell your home for kilos of silver. If you have some money to spend why not be a part of something that will yield results. Whether they are the results we want or not. Thats my two silver pence on May 1st and how we should look at it.

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