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Some people wonder why we have a source for bodybuilding products on this DisasterEmergencySupplies.com website. They cannot imagine what possible items a bodybuilding site could contribute to a store of emergency supplies

But I can.

That is where I find the highest quality Glutamine in the world, in my opinion, at the lowest price to my door. Can’t beat them for service, price and quality. They stand behind their products 100%, even after you’ve used half of it. I detected a slight off color in some vitamin C after we’d had it for some time, and I asked them if it was ok to take, which I thought it would be, but just asking. They said not to even try it. They would send 2 new containers (I get large containers) to replace the two I had ordered, and would send me a label to return the unused portion. I said again plainly that I wasn’t even sure if the C was bad, I was just wondering. They said not for me to worry about it. They would send 2 new containers. They did. I had new vitamin C in a couple of days.

But I digress.

In my opinion and that of many bodybuilding nutritional counselors, the most helpful supplement for the support of the immune system and restoring the body after stress, is the natural amino acid Glutamine… also called L-Glutamine. (more…)

On Friday, many stock market pundits were whooping up the glory of a market that has made gains for six weeks running… even though the final count on Friday included a Dow Jones Industrials Average that was up less than 6 points after such erratic trading that one stock market daytrader commented that they felt ’seasick’.

Never mind that the Great Depression was heralded in by just such a run-up. Never mind that we are in the throws of dire economic circumstances where, if you carefully read the official Bureau of Labor Statistics reports, our unemployment is more like 20 percent, rather the 8 or 10 that is generally acknowledged by the media.

As a nation, we are sinking into what closely parallels clinical shock in a person’s body.

When a person has a serious trauma inflicted on their body, like an auto accident or a bullet wound, it is not uncommon for them to regain consciousness and not realize they have been severely compromised.

They are in the two-edged state of shock.
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I never use binoculars. Except when I really need them.

I can go for months without picking up the pair I’ve had for several decades. And then suddenly I really need them. There might be something out at sea I really need to see, or an aircraft I’m curious about. I pick them up, sling the strap around my neck (I always put the strap around my neck because binoculars by their very nature are easy to drop) and suddenly my sense of sight is magnified enormously. I see what I need to see and then I’m done with them for however long.

I’m awfully glad I have them. Especially for emergency situations when I might really need to see something approaching.
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GhostCrab, an astute community member at MarketWatch, posted a thought or two last night that for some reason really resonated with me. I reproduce his post here with his permission.

I’m going to give you all one very, very large reason to kick preparations into high gear. My wife is starting to see eye-to-eye with me on the probabilities of a plethora of nasty scenarios that are unfolding, and that we are slowly but surely narrowing towards. She has been telling me to can it and been giving me “the eye” for at least two years. That she is getting on board, let alone my Dad, should be enough to worry anyone.
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Neil says that when he started writing his new book, Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life, his fear factor was at about 6 out of 10. Now that he’s learned some basic survival skills, he feels the factor has been downgraded to a 1 or 2. That’s pretty good. Before he started taking EMT classes, he felt he had to flee when faced with an emergency situation. Now he has joined the California Emergency Mobile Patrol, and feels the responsibility to help, instead. Very good.

This is a heavily marketed book, and definitely written for people who are just starting to think about emergency preparedness. But it’s written with a nod of the hat to the gonzo style of personal journalism manifest by Hunter S. Thompson, and so it is a fairly entertaining read as you find out how to kill a goat. Now that I think of it, perhaps it reminds me more of a Maxim how-to-do-it article. Which is natural, because his first book was apparently an iconoclastic treatise about how to pick up girls, a best-seller called The Game (I didn’t read that one… I’ve already got my Amazon Woman from the Avocado Jungle… really, don’t ask). Or perhaps an otherworldly Mother Jones News feature.

As you see, it defies description. Maybe best to just check it out for yourself at Amazon (the booksellers, not the tribe that inhabits the Avocado Jungle).

The meeting was pretty much over before it started. As it turned out, it was only one day long, almost. Just long enough for a group photo op for the assembled kings of their countries. No, that’s not a slip or a typo.

Nothing happened. At least in public. A trillion dollars to the International Monetary Fund, most of which was already allocated. They just confirmed it.

And they all agreed that every country should do all they can to stop the depression, but nothing specific. No plan or anything like that.

Oh, and they activated a 50-year-old clause of the IMF Charter, which allows a supra-national reserve currency which is good only between countries, and funded it with about a quarter of a trillion dollars worth of funds, although they aren’t dollars now they’re, well, not-the-dollars. It is the beginning of the end for the supremacy of the dollar. China is very happy.

So did we have a subtle world coup? Or was it just a fizzle and a pop, and nothing worth noting?

I’ll leave that up to you.

Apparently the first ‘real’ day of meetings is tomorrow, Thursday. As
I understand it, which is perhaps not true because there is a lot of
obfuscation around this event, there are four days of meeting. Even
if there are three ‘real’ days, the meeting very probably goes into
the weekend.

To make a long story short (too late!) the vital pronouncements could
come on Friday. Or if the news is going to be so bad that they think
it might cause a panic or worse, we could get that bad news on the
weekend… which I’m starting to think might be the most likely
scenario. The FDIC announces bank closings each Friday after the
stock market closes, so there is lots of precedent.

In any event, a good week to keep holding your breath until it’s over.