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The Ready Store is running their (up to) 40% off Sale now through the end of May. The Ready Store offers survival and storage food and supplies from small packages up to multi-year stockpiles.
e-Foods Direct Offers Free Survival Meals
e-Foods Direct is offering its Food Planning Pack and 6 Meals (12 Servings) for FREE if you pay shipping and handling. Their offer includes:
- Three (3) Pouches of Quick-Fix Meals
- Food Planning Guide Helps Calculate How Much Food You Need
- 30-Minute Audio CD by Steve Shenk, e-Foods Direct Co-Founder
- 12 Servings including Tortilla Soup, Cheesy Chicken Rice Casserole, and Creamy Potato Soup
Spring Publishing Schedule: Spring prepping projects, work and travel schedule necessitate an adjustment to Prepography’s Publishing Schedule. We’ll continue to publish original articles three times a week, quotes daily and the occasional infographic, manual excerpt or guest article.
Welcome Mother Earth Products
Prepography is pleased to welcome Mother Earth Products as our latest advertiser. Mother Earth Products sells food storage and food storage supplies. They are a family owned business and describe their mission as:
Here at Mother Earth we specialize in working with individuals, one on one, to meet your specific needs. We not only want to help you with your daily needs of dried vegetables (dehydrated vegetables), freeze dried fruit, freeze dried vegetables, TVP and meat substitutes, and other grains and legumes, but we want to help you to understand the value of future preparedness and teach you how to accomplish it, in part, through Long Term Food Storage.
Mother Earth Products Home Page
Check them out and tell them you saw their ad on Prepography!
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Site Note
On the road for a few days and the internet service crashed…check back soon. Thank heaven for cellphone internet…even if it is slow and hard to type…
Mao on Class Warfare – Today’s Quote
Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Chinese Chairman (and tyrant) Mau Zedong
Andrew’s Note: Much of the strength of our Republic is derived from the fact that we have class mobility. Our Nation must endeavor to continue providing equality of opportunity, eliminate preferences by class, category or birth station so that we can avoid the class struggle that has so plagued the rest of the world. I fear that powerful interests have staked their futures on inciting class warfare by selling many a diet of envy, protection from their own poor decisions and ‘equality of outcomes.’
AR-15 Magazines In Stock
Magpul AR-15 Magazine
I’m still keeping an eye on prices and availability of key supplies to keep my firearms running and noticed that Prepography advertiser LuckyGunner has 42 Thermold AR-15 magazines in stock. They’re the 20 rounders and run $22 now (prices are still increasing a bit).
They also have 44 Magpul AR-15 30 round magazines as well. They’re selling for $44.50 now. Search on the LuckyGunner website for “Thermold AR-15″
Brownells and Sportman’s Guide are still taking backorders for AR-15 magazines and their prices are better…but nothing’s in stock.
Prepography advertiser Mozy Online Backup just announced a special for December. Use Mozy Online Backup coupon code “Dec2012″ for 10% off until the end of the month. Better yet…get up to 2GB of free storage and don’t pay a thing. You can use the same Mozy Online Backup account for multiple computers as well. I use Mozy as a secondary, daily backup on my work desktop and home laptop.
Also, you can select to just back up those files or folders you want… to cut down on backup space and get it to less than 2GB so it’s free. Don’t forget to prep for those little digital disasters as well!
Somehow I missed this with my Black Friday, Cyber Monday Specials but it’s still good until Friday 11/30. Lifelock‘s running a free month and 15% off regular pricing. Must use this link below to get the special deal (not the link at the lower right of the page).
30-Day Free Trial + 15% Off Site-Wide at LifeLock.com
I’ve gotten tired of all the letters telling me that my financial and personal information has been stolen (happened twice from government computers alone)…lately when it happens I get a free year of ‘credit monitoring’…but that seems like closing the barn door after the cows are out…I signed up for Lifelock because it’s proactive…protect yourself from the little, personal financial disasters as well as the big, societal financial disasters. At the very least, order your free, annual credit reports…but you know once a year isn’t enough!
Prepography Advertiser Smoky Mountain Knife Works has announced the following Sale for Cyber Monday 11/26/12. Use coupon code CY12 at check out for:
- 10% Discounts on purchases up to $99.99
- 20% Discount on purchases over $100.00
- 25% Discount on purchases over $300.00
- Free Standard Shipping
- Free Knife with $50.00 purchase
Happy Thanksgiving
Today it’s traditional to take a break from the day-to-day and gather with family and friends to count our blessings. We face many challenges individually, as families, and as a nation, but no matter the challenges there are blessings to be counted…I urge you to do so.
Additionally, as you gather today remember that those you choose to spend this day with are likely those that you would gather with in the event of a disaster… for mutual aid, support and even survival. Family and Community Support is essential to preparedness.
Happy Thanksgiving,
Andrew J. Jackson
Heinlein on Democracy – Today’s Quote
The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a ‘warm body’ democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens… which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it… which for the majority translates as ‘Bread and Circuses.’
‘Bread and Circuses’ is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.
Robert A. Heinlein
New Links Added to Our Online Preparedness Tools & Resources Library
Today we’re adding 5 new tools to the Prepography Online Preparedness Tools & Resources Library. Use it in good fortune & health but don’t forget to print off, save to USB or write down what you feel is important in case the internet is down.
Permaculture Game: Not really a tool, but a game that teaches and illustrates permaculture principles.
PCGS Professional Coin Grading Service: Many preppers end up with some collector grade precious metal coins in their collection. Here’s an online tool to help you estimate your coins ‘grade’ both to assess it’s value and if it’s worth sending in for formal evaluation.
Save Us Chuck Woolery: Entertaining and informative videos from the former talk show host Continue reading
Voltaire on Labor – Today’s Quote
I have no more than twenty acres of ground the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils – boredom, vice, and want.
Voltaire
Yost on Preparation – Today’s Quote
The will to win is worthless if you do not have the will to prepare.
Thane Yost
