Survival Saturday is a round-up of the week’s news and resources for folks who are interested in being prepared.
This Week in the News
This week on Survival Saturday, we have a wide variety of topics to cover. North Korea is playing war games, glyphosate has been discovered in a huge percentage of vaccines, and there are some updates on (gasp) presidential campaign cheats, insults, and scandals.
Grab some coffee and we’ll talk about this week’s news!
Who in the heck gave Kim Jong-un a nuke?
Seriously, there’s irresponsible and evil, like your everyday villains in the Die Hard movies, and then there’s the person who gave Kim Jong-un ballistic nuclear capabilities. It’s a whole new level of malicious lunacy to hand weapons of mass destruction to an ultra-secretive, brutally repressive empire like North Korea. For heaven’s sake, they actually banned sarcasm because their leader was worried that people were only agreeing with him “ironically.” I’m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that dissenters get put in work camps forever if they get to live at all.
Anyhoo, the past few weeks, North Korea has been acting up. They’ve fired missiles in the general direction of Japan. They’ve been running drills and testing nuclear weapons. Yesterday, they ran their fifth and largest test on a nuclear weapon – and that test was shortly followed by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake near the test site.
It appears that they’ve gotten the attention of the world now. The UN Security Council called an emergency meeting to decide on sanctions, and when asked, President Obama would not rule out military action against North Korea.
Vaccines: Now with Round-Up!
This isn’t about the vaccine debate, the should-you-or-shouldn’t-you, or the make-everyone-get-vaccinated-or-isolate-them-from-society discussion.
It’s about new, peer-reviewed information of which every parent, every person who is debating a flu shot, and every person who is considering a shingles vaccine, should be aware. Whether you are pro-vaccine, anti-vaccine, or a fan of alternate schedule vaccines, this is something you need to know.
It has been recently discovered that nearly all of them are tainted…with potentially cancer-causing glyphosate.
And speaking of alternative schedules, here in California, that is verboten. The lawmakers in this state are vaccine crazy, and they won’t stand for any alteration of their massive mandatory schedule. In fact, Dr. Bob Sears, the pediatrician credited with creating the alternate schedule, which spaces the doses out more and omits certain vaccines, is at risk of losing his California medical license for writing an exemption for a child who had an extremely severe reaction to a vaccination.
More cheating, name-calling, and miscellany from the Clinton campaign
It probably isn’t much of a headline to say that the Clinton campaign is cheating and would do anything in order to win the presidential election. Anyone who paid even the slightest attention to the shenanigans at the Democratic National Convention has watched the depths the campaign will plumb. But here’s the latest, anyway.
- First of all, uh-oh. The Justice Department has granted immunity to the Bleach-bit guy who scrubbed Clinton’s computer. Let’s take a moment here, and hope fervently that the Bleach-bit guy has fantastic security and is interested in going into witness protection forever and ever if he manages to survive long enough to testify.
- The newest theory about Hillary Clinton’s questionable health is that she could have Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a chronic and progressive disorder that involves the death and malfunction of brain cells, eventually leaving the sufferer eventually unable to control his or her own movement.
- Goldman Sachs, a banking firm that many consider having been single-handedly responsible for the crash of 2008 (but don’t worry, they got a taxpayer bailout) has made some rules for their employees. Namely, employees are forbidden from donating to Donald Trump’s campaign, but it’s cool if they want to donate to Hillary Clinton’s campaign. That’s not sketchy at all.
- Hillary Clinton just called Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables.” But that’s not all she said.
“…you know, just to be grossly generalist, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”
“Right?” she said as the crowd laughed and applauded. “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it,” Clinton continued.
- ThinkProgress.org immediately leaped to her defense with a survey that “proved” Trump supporters are horrible people.
The Bookshelf
Have you read Failures of Imagination yet? If you haven’t, you definitely should. It’s our book of the month over at Preppers University for a very good reason! In it, the author, the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, provides a riveting look at the terror threats our country could soon face.
Here’s the newest by prolific preparedness author, Jim Cobb: Prepper’s Armed Defense. This is a book that everyone who has thought about protecting their family in the midst of an emergency needs to read. It’s filled with Jim’s usual common-sense approach and about a topic that is seldom discussed without armchair Rambos taking over the conversation with tales of their prowess and wild threats.
For more info on North Korea, since their leader wants to be our new Daddy:
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Without You, There Is No Us: Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea’s Elite
And documentaries…
North Korea: The Grand Illusion (free on Amazon Prime)
North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State
This Week in Preparedness…
21 Life Hacks to Help You Breeze Through the Apocalypse (Or At Least the Next Power Outage)
How to Build a 30-Day Emergency Food Supply Fast
12 Survival Skills to Learn and Master for SHTF
How to Survive Civil Unrest and Riots
Attend a recorded webinar with Selco Begovic, Toby Cowern and Daisy Luther. Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What to do before the protests occur
- How a protest can turn into a riot
- How to know when you should leave
- What to do if you’re away from home
- What to do if a mob surrounds your car
- How to survive if you’re on foot
- How to protect your home and family
What you’ll get
WEBINAR: Recorded for your convenience. Listen to it on-demand at the time that works best for you. Pause if you get interrupted. Listen as many times as you like.
TRANSCRIPT: Get the entire transcript of the webinar to download and read.
DOWNLOAD: PDF of “How to Survive Civil Unrest”, a chapter from Daisy’s book, Be Ready for Anything. Included with this is a handy checklist for civil unrest preparations.
About Daisy
Daisy Luther is a coffee-swigging, adventure-seeking, globe-trotting blogger. She is the founder and publisher of three websites. 1) The Organic Prepper, which is about current events, preparedness, self-reliance, and the pursuit of liberty; 2) The Frugalite, a website with thrifty tips and solutions to help people get a handle on their personal finances without feeling deprived; and 3) PreppersDailyNews.com, an aggregate site where you can find links to all the most important news for those who wish to be prepared. Her work is widely republished across alternative media and she has appeared in many interviews.
Daisy is the best-selling author of 5 traditionally published books, 12 self-published books, and runs a small digital publishing company with PDF guides, printables, and courses at Learn.TheOrganicPrepper.com You can find her on Facebook, Pinterest, Gab, MeWe, Parler, Instagram, and Twitter.
“…that involves the death and malfunction of brain cells….” wow … you mean she will become more liberal?
LOL. Right? The irony did not escape me.
Regarding the North Koreans; they are the puppets of China. They cannot launch a missile without the Chinese giving them the fuel. The Chinese are bumping heads with the USA over the islands they lost claim to in international courts. USA is challenging Chinese over the islands and the Chinese are using North Korea to indirectly poke back at the USA.
Great insight! Thanks for sharing that, Steve. I’ll definitely read more about that conflict. 🙂