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Nitro-Pak Pre-Memorial Day Sale With Savings Up To 75% Off
One of the advertisers on Survival And Prosperity, Nitro-Pak Preparedness Center, Inc. (reviewed here), the largest mail-order company in the nation specializing in freeze-dried food and emergency preparedness supplies, is having a Pre-Memorial Day Sale. With savings up to 75% off, discounts in their Gear Up Sale! include:
• Mountain House Camping Pouches- 15% off
• Backpacker Pantry Camping Pouches- 25% off
• All Backpacker Pantry #10 Cans- 25% off
• All Water Filters- 15% off
• All First Aid- 10% off
• All Camping Cook Stoves- 10% off
• Camping Lanterns- Up to 75% off
• Solar Power Radios- “Huge Savings!”
• Emergency Garden Seeds- “ALL Garden Seeds on SALE”
• Millennium Energy Bars- 33% off
• Survival 72 Hour Kits- “Lowest Price you will see all year! Save UP-To 30%”
• Mountain House Buckets- “Freeze Dried Entree Buckets on SALE”
No word as to when the Gear Up Sale! will end, so head on over to the Nitro-Pak website as soon as possible.
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By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
CampingSurvival.com Mountain House Food Sale Ending
Survival And Prosperity readers may have noticed the new ads in the right sidebar from CampingSurvival.com since last month. I’ve heard lots of good things about this Fulton, New York-based source for camping supplies, survival gear, and survival food, and could be establishing a “permanent” affiliate marketing relationship with the 100 percent veteran-owned, “A+” Better Business Bureau accredited outfit shortly.
As the current ad shows, CampingSurvival.com has a huge sale going on right now on Mountain House food products: 25 percent off #10 cans and 15 percent off pouches and long-term buckets.
Not familiar with the Mountain House brand? From CampingSurvival.com:
Mountain House, the #1 brand of freeze dried backpacking foods has been the choice of backpackers, hikers, campers, and other outdoor enthusiasts for over 30 years. When it comes to long term food storage, emergency preparedness and recreational activities like camping, hiking, backpacking and hunting, Mountain House is the #1 choice. That’s because Mountain House has been recognized as the best tasting freeze dried meals. Mountain House, is convenient, easy to prepare and has a long shelf life. Mountain House is the premier emergency food supply with all of the best tasting emergency food entrees.
Remember, the massively-discounted sale of Mountain House foods ends tomorrow, Wednesday, May 15.
I’m told by the folks at CampingSurvival.com this is a “pretty special” event and doesn’t happen often. Check it out and grab some bargain-priced freeze-dried food while you still can!
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Sale Ended! Visit CampingSurvival.com to view other specials.
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Resource Of The Week: Student Of The Gun
One of the great things about satellite television (at least, DISH Network) is the number of shows dedicated to personal defense and the shooting sports.
But I’ve noticed a trend lately. A number of these productions are no longer limited to just being watched on the television set.
Take American Airgunner for example (a past ROTW that I blogged about here). These days, the show, which is devoted to air gun shooting sports, can be seen on satellite TV (Pursuit Channel) with archived episodes available on the Internet (YouTube.com).
Also available for viewing these days on the World Wide Web (hardly hear that term anymore) is Student of the Gun. My first exposure to SOTG was the TV show that used to air on DISH Network (Sportsman Channel). I thought it was really good. As time went on, however, I learned the television production was part of something larger. From their website:
Being a Student of the Gun is not about being a novice or beginner. Student of the Gun represents a life’s journey of education, enlightenment and the enjoyment of firearms. Each episode will introduce the viewer to new and interesting firearms as well as the latest gear to go with them.
We will travel throughout the United States seeking the advice and expertise of the best firearms trainers available. Sometimes deadly serious, sometimes just for fun, Student of the Gun will always strive to educate and entertain their viewers while offering them an insiders’ look at the worlds of firearms.
Paul G. Markel became a U.S. Marine in 1987 and served his nation during times of war and peace. A law enforcement veteran, Paul was a police officer for seventeen years before becoming a full-time Small Arms and Tactics Instructor. During the late unpleasantness, Mr. Markel has trained thousands of U.S. Military troops prior to their deployment to combat zones. He is and will remain a dedicated Student of the Gun.
“Bug-Out Bag Guns”
YouTube Video
Now joining the TV show (available only via the Internet these days as far as I can tell) in the SOTG lineup are:
• Student of the Gun Radio Show (listened to first episode- good stuff; now on Episode 8)
• Student of the Gun Blog
• Student of the Gun HomeRoom (short “lectures”- mini-lessons- by “Professor Paul” Markel)
These resources contain lots of terrific firearm-related information, and can be easily-accessed in one place- the Student of the Gun website. Check it out!
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
(Editor’s note: Link added to “Resources” page)
Radio Appearance: Morning AMp, Vocalo Radio 90.7 FM Chicago
Last Chicago-focused post until next week- I promise.
However, this one’s not a “downer” like the other posts. In fact, I’m happy that I can share this with readers.
Back on Friday, February 8, I blogged about a terrific piece on Chicago-area preppers and guns that was done by Aurora Aguilar, a project editor over at Chicago public radio station WBEZ 91.5 FM. Published on the WBEZ website two days earlier, “Preppers: Guns are the most important tool in preparing for the end of civilization,” was the second story in a series by Aguilar entitled “Our Guns,” which are “conversations with gun owners.”
Now, later that Friday, Ms. Aguilar invited me to participate in a local show she was to be appearing on at the start of the next business week. I accepted, and on Monday, February 11, I found myself on the Morning AMp, a call-in talk show hosted by Brian Babylon and Molly Adams on Vocalo Radio 90.7 FM Chicago.
(Editor’s note: I didn’t have many details about the show beforehand, so I didn’t alert readers about the event)
From the show’s archive section on the Vocalo website:
Preppers: Preparing for the end of civilization with guns
George describes himself as “half-hillbilly, half-Viking.”
WBEZ’s Aurora Aguilar talked with George Drouillard (a pseudonym) about his preparedness plan. It maybe a devastating blizzard or a government takeover, either way George is ready with canned food, extra batteries, shovels, and lots and lots of guns. Aguilar joins hosts Molly Adams and Brian Babylon in the studio while Christopher Hill, editor of Survival and Prosperity, calls in to discuss the lifestyle choice that George has made and the community that supports it.
Brian and Molly were gracious hosts and were great to talk to. Aurora was terrific- again. As for me? I thought I could have done better, quite frankly. But I really appreciate having been given the opportunity to appear on the show and contribute what I’ve observed and learned over the last couple of years. Thank you so much Brian, Molly, and especially Aurora.
You can listen to our discussion of Chicago-area preppers and guns on Vocalo here (click on the “Play” symbol under the photo of “George” near the top-left-hand-side of the page).
By the way, before I said goodbye to the group that morning I pointed out there were still people without electricity as a result of Hurricane Sandy, which hit the East Coast last October. CNBC noted the Friday before the interview that some 2,000 people in New Jersey and and New York were still without power from the costly severe weather event.
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Advertiser Spotlight: Food Insurance
Another commercial I starting seeing on TheBlaze TV quite a bit- and which I decided to check out for myself- was for the emergency food supply company Food Insurance. The Kaysville, Utah-based business was founded in 2009 and initially focused on offering emergency kits that were tailored to FEMA guidelines. FoodInsurance.com has expanded since then, offering both long-term emergency food supplies and non-food emergency products. From their website:
Having an emergency food supply isn’t a new idea. Many of our customers have shared memories of food storage rooms full of canned goods in their parent or grandparent’s basement. What we have found is that many people want to have survival food storage on hand, but don’t know how to get started.
Food Insurance has the perfect solution. We provide gourmet emergency food supplies that are easy to prepare, compact to store, last 25+ years, and are affordable. With Food Insurance emergency food supplies, you can be confident that your family is prepared for whatever life may bring your way.
“Food Insurance on Balancing Act”
YouTube Video
The company has been endorsed by both Sean Hannity of FOX News and Glenn Beck of TheBlaze TV.
Food Insurance is also an accredited Better Business Bureau operation, currently showing a rating of “A-” on the BBB website.
A couple of things I like about Food Insurance:
• They offer free shipping on all orders over $1,000
• They have a monthly “special offer”
• They have a pay-as-you-go program available so one can acquire emergency food supplies on a budget
Click on the banner ad below and see what Food Insurance can do for you. Please note that by clicking on the ad and purchasing a product, I receive a commission from the sale.
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Advertiser Spotlight: My Patriot Supply Survival Store
Since I’ve started receiving TheBlaze TV on DISH Network, I’ve seen number of commercials from a company called My Patriot Supply Survival Store. One day I decided to head over to their website- and was very impressed by what I saw. Indiana-based My Patriot Supply was founded in 2008 and quickly became a leading heirloom seed supplier. However, “Your Patriot Owned Survival Store” has since expanded their product line “to include a great variety of survival and emergency preparedness items that we have personally used, tested, and believe in.” From their website:
The MyPatriotSupply survival store was founded in 2008 by people with a passion for self-sufficiency and emergency preparedness. We not only understand the drive to practice emergency preparedness, we are active participants in the survivalist lifestyle. We earnestly believe that true freedom comes from attaining a certain level of self-reliance and our survival store was created with this truth in mind.
MyPatriotSupply features only the finest quality survival items, including our signature Survival Seed Vault, a wide selection of individual survival heirloom seeds, an array of home canning supplies, and the finest long term storage food currently available. MyPatriotSupply also specializes in emergency water filtration, and features the Lifestraw, the award winning personal water filtration straw that eliminates 99.99999% of waterborne bacteria and parasites. So no matter what your survival needs, you can trust that you will find quality products and be treated with respect. We believe that fear mongering and price gouging are unacceptable, so we price each survival item fairly and offer free shipping on all orders over $49.
“My Patriot Supply TV Ad Spot- Survival Seed Vault”
YouTube Video
In 2013, the number of products offered on MyPatriotSupply.com is expected to nearly double.
While I really like the free shipping on all orders over $49 (lower 48 states), their “Deal of the Day” is also outstanding. As I write this, My Patriot Supply’s current deal is their Herbal Tea Garden Vault, which usually costs $16.95 but has been slashed to only $12.95 for a limited time only.
Click on the banner ad below and see what My Patriot Supply Survival Store can do for you. Please note that by clicking on the ad and purchasing a product, I receive a commission from the sale.
By Christopher E. Hill, Editor
Survival And Prosperity (www.survivalandprosperity.com)
Project Prepper: Mayan Apocalypse Detour?
The past couple of days, I’ve been watching quite a bit of “doomsday”-related TV on the National Geographic Channel and on H2.
Even though I don’t buy into the whole December 21, 2012, end-of-the-world thing, it was still depressing to watch. And this is coming from someone who (I think) is rather good-spirited in nature.
I have to be in order to blog about a lot of the material I do.
At one point in this “doomsday” TV show viewing marathon, I started questioning myself and wondered if perhaps I should go on a buying spree for supplies before the Mayan 13th b’ak’tun runs out.
It wasn’t an apocalyptic event I was worried about as much as the action(s) of some nut-job(s) making life for the rest of us more “difficult.”
But that’s a danger we face on a daily basis, so after weighing the evidence at hand regarding a Mayan Apocalypse occurring on December 21, I decided against taking a detour from Project Prepper by doing some “panic buying.”
Still, a lot of people are worried about this date. Remember that Reuters/Ipsos “end times” poll I blogged about back in May? One of the findings was that 12 percent of Americans surveyed agreed with the statement “the Mayan calendar, which some says ‘ends’ in 2012, marks the end of the world.”
“12 percent.” As percentage of the U.S. population in 2011, that’s approximately 37.4 million Americans who might agree with that statement about the world ending in a couple of weeks.
Well, that probably helps explain some of the shortages I’ve been seeing with prepper/survivalist-related gear and supplies.
“Preparing For Mayan Doomsday”
ABC San Diego Video
The fear of this date extends beyond our borders. Remember my post about Pic de Bugarach, a mountain in southern France, back in March, and how some believe aliens waiting in a spacecraft inside the mountain will save all nearby humans from the Apocalypse on December 21? Well, The Sun (UK) reported the following on November 16:
A FRENCH village has banned a Doomsday cult from heading to a “mystical mountain” that followers believe will save them from extinction…
Bugarach mayor Jean-Pierre Delord said his village of just 200 people had now become “overrun with esoteric weirdos” hoping to survive in six weeks time.
He said: “The mountainside is swarming with hippies, many of them naked, who drop litter and make a mess…
Regional prefect Eric Freysselinard has now issued an order barring anyone from climbing the mountain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, on “Doomsday”.
He said: “It will be closed off for three days before and two days after the world is supposed to end.”
“Sorry about my litter. Save the Earth.”
Even the Russians are concerned. Ellen Barry wrote on The New York Times website this past weekend:
There are scattered reports of unusual behavior from across Russia’s nine time zones.
Inmates in a women’s prison near the Chinese border are said to have experienced a “collective mass psychosis” so intense that their wardens summoned a priest to calm them. In a factory town east of Moscow, panicked citizens stripped shelves of matches, kerosene, sugar and candles. A huge Mayan-style archway is being built — out of ice — on Karl Marx Street in Chelyabinsk in the south.
Despite such incidents, I still haven’t seen any definitive evidence pointing to the end of the world on December 21. In fact, as a result of all that TV, I’m now aware of other Mayan calendars suggesting life will go on after this date.
As such, there’ll be no mad rush for Apocalypse supplies on my end.
See you at the December 22 post-doomsday fire sales?
Sources:
“Officials ban doomsday followers from French village.” The Sun. 16 Nov. 2012. (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4648192/bugarach-bans-doomsday-followers-from-village.html). 4 Dec. 2012.
Barry, Ellen. “In Panicky Russia, It’s Official: End of World Is Not Near.” The New York Times. 1 Dec. 2012. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/world/europe/mayan-end-of-world-stirs-panic-in-russia-and-elsewhere.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0). 4 Dec. 2012.
Pat Robertson Explores Prepper Movement
Televangelist Pat Robertson is like a kid in a candy store in this recent Christian Broadcasting Network News segment on prepping.
CBN News Reporter Chuck Holton did a nice job with this assignment.
“Doomsday Ready? More Americans ‘Becoming Preppers’”
CBN Video
Self Reliance Expo In Arlington, Texas, This Friday And Saturday
Any Survival And Prosperity readers near Arlington, Texas? Here’s an event that’s going down Friday and Saturday that might be worth checking out:
Self Reliance Expo
Join the largest expo of its kind in the nation!
July 27-28, 2012
Fri. Noon-8p & Sat. 9a-8p
Arlington Convention Center, 1200 Ballpark Way, Arlington, TX 76011
Our family friendly event focuses on traditional values and long forgotten skills.
We bring you over 50 training classes and presentations.
All Self Reliance subjects to be covered.
Over a 100 exhibitors with products and discounts!
Whether you are starting out or have years of experience, we have something for you!
Tickets are $10/per person for BOTH DAYS!
Remember – Kids are FREE! (12 and under)
For more information, visit the Self Reliance Expo home page here, or this page for event-specific information.
Chicagoland Hit By Severe Weather
Hard-hitting storms punched through the Chicagoland area this morning. From the Chicago Tribune website a short time ago:
Powerful thunderstorms raked the Chicago area this morning, downing trees and power lines and leaving at least 183,000 Commonwealth Edison customers without electricity…
Winds of 70 mph hit Naperville about 6:15 a.m., and 61 mph gusts were recorded at Midway Airport just after 6:30 a.m., according to the National Weather Service. Chicago received more than 800 reports of downed trees throughout the city as of about 10 a.m., according to a spokeswoman for the Department of Streets and Sanitation…
As of 9 a.m., about 182,000 ComEd customers remained without power: 65,000 customers in the western region; 50,000 in the south region; 46,000 in the Chicago region; and 21,000 in the north region…
We lost power here on the Northwest side- but only briefly. Believe it or not, there actually are some advantages to living in a “concrete jungle,” where the lack of trees works in our favor during severe storms.
And I’ll tell you what. During that short time the electricity was off- it was real nice crawling out of bed (okay, that part wasn’t too fun), mozying on over to a closet, and busting out an LED camping lantern and portable dual-powered fan- followed later by an LED headlamp and multi-powered flashlight/radio- to investigate what had happened and to help my girlfriend and me carry on in the dark environment.
Not that we didn’t have any advance warning that severe weather might be headed our way. The all-hazard/weather alert radio in the master bedroom was sounding-off quite a bit for some time before the storm arrived.
Did I mention that we purchased the portable dual-powered fan only just this past weekend in anticipation of events like this?
Such minimal, inexpensive gear worked like a charm this time around, and it’s comforting to know these preps are in place for the next emergency/severe weather event.
Source:
“Thousands without power after strong storms hit.” Chicago Tribune. 24 July 2012. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-strong-storms-hit-chicago-area-downing-trees-and-knocking-out-power-20120724,0,1779965.story). 24 July 2012.
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