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From the Desk of John Rourke – January 3rd, 2017

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17 days until Obama is out of office.

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I’ve started working on a post to remind people that there are lots of reasons to continue to prepared efforts – food storage, security, defense, gardening, bug out plans, fuel storage, bug in plans, etc. Well here’s one: Kim Jung Un in North Korea is prepping to test an ICBM in their continuing nuclear armament efforts.

Let’s remember North Korea has two satellites orbiting the planet and passes over the United States. What if they contain nuclear weapons?

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Last couple weeks been going through serious organization efforts. Still a ways to go. Way too much clutter and saving EVERYTHING. A lot of people do Spring Cleaning well guess we are doing Winter Cleaning. Old clothes heading to Goodwill or Salvation Army. Misc supplies have been placed into storage unit until retreat shed is complete. This is freeing up some serious space. Firearms and all things related to firearms getting a place. Purchased another metal gun cabinet – a Stack On 10 gun. Will get an actual safe at some point.

Making headway is better than going backwards.

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Added my 2017 Goals & Objects to the Projects page.

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7 Comments

  1. Mike Suchman says:

    Try this on for size as well, both the sun & our planet’s magnetic poles are in flux. [ours mover every several thousand years & the sun’s every 11 years (or so)] So when the poles line up south to south, north to north the solar storms gets a lot worse & punch through our magnetosphere. And then all the tech in the world goes to crap & we go back to the 1800’s in under a min.
    Not to mention all the storms that blow up, & I live along the Mississippi River, so we have the New Madrid fault zone to deal with. So this is why I prep.

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  2. StevefromMA says:

    Natural stuff like poles changing is scary, North Korea even scarier to me. Kim might be crazy enough to do an EMP, tough prep for me here, maybe game over. Good books, One Second After and sequel, about EMP. Tough stories.

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  3. JBernDrApt says:

    Kim and North Korea, yeah a big issue. Hopefully he will come to an untimely end!!!
    Raising kids is important. Too bad we turn most of that over to liberal school systems. Education needs an overhaul from top to bottom. Then we will see a turn around in our Nation.
    Winter cleaning, yes! I did some over Christmas and New Years, need to continue that into January.
    Looking forward to 2017. No matter what comes, I don’t go it alone, the Lord is with me.
    – Keep Looking UP

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  4. goingray58 says:

    Nuclear threats are a huge deal of course. (EMP and if lower altitude even bigger deal). Internationally you can count on a super bug at some point as well. It’s not whether but when. It won’t make a difference if it is malicious or accidental/natural. Most likely Extra-CONUS threats… if malicious, but not necessarily.

    However domestic threats are just as necessary to prepare for
    Fire, Hurricane, earthquake, drought, job loss, illness, loss of health care…. all very real and harmful. What happens if all of a sudden you aren’t there to care for your family? None of us get out alive, ultimately… and having a buffer for transitions is huge isnt’ it ?
    A partial economic meltdown is more likely than SHTF IMO, but a whether or when again. Of course if it is affecting you it’s major. We have fire extinguishers not because we plan for a fire, but because we don’t. right?

    The election and the threats associated made it feel VERY urgent. Those threats remain. While socially the US is worse than it was before the election .. I’ve had to go to my “waist” three times now in 6 weeks. In good areas of town.. Holidays likely .. but still .. not good.

    I don’t suppose it’s a sprint, but it is a race and it takes time, work and money to get resources in place. Even the mindset of making decisions partly based on asking yourself how it affects your preparations, is something to consider.
    rambling.. I look forward to the article JR

    GG58

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    1. StevefromMA says:

      It’s astounding to me that a civilian would have to consider firearm use not once but three times in a short time period. I’ve been on the verge of drawing once my whole life, vs. several really big but unarmed folks. In my state, even showing a weapon would be big time legal problem.

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  5. Mike Suchman says:

    As far as some of my preps go, I just picked up 2 hand drills [non powered] for my tool collection. I am looking to a more “holistic” approach to our survival. I am also getting my neighbors into it as well, with each neighbor doing their own specialty [we have machinists, wood workers, farmers, ranchers, ems/security types, ect…] in our area. We even are laying in back up comm for a grid down situation/s.

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