Revision as of 17:46, 22 September 2017

Air date: Friday, Sept 22, 2017

Christian’s Thoughts

Do something! Take that daily step! There is no time for excuses any more. There are older people who have skills; if you are young, ask them how to do stuff. There are younger people who are hungry for skills; if you are old, don't assume they are slackers. It’s time to reach across these generations, and join together, and share.

Technology is helping to bridge that: do a video of that backyard garden, that aquaponics, and be seen by others. And as soon as you see someone else do it, you say, “I can do that too!” You didn’t think you could, but when you see someone else do it, when you hear about it, when you read a blog, we inspire each other. So biggest message: SHARE WHAT YOU’RE DOING. With other ppl. Get involved in your communities. Be involved with each other. Tell your story. Tell me your story, and I’ll share your story to others.

Just my thoughts. Let's build this community.

News

Related to solar cycles and geoclimatic changes. Just too much to speak to. Luckily, Adapt 2030 has done a terrific job covering the early freezes across the Northern Hemisphere -- the "early freezes" we here have been expecting for weeks now.

• Ocean receding from Brazil again. I'm still hunting for anyone who can explain to me what this is about.

Irma

• Irma, 50% citrus wiped out
  • Most significant crop loss ever
  • avocados and ornamental plants in Miami-Dade County, along with eggplants, tomatoes and bell peppers.

The State

One thing learned through Irma that's not immediately obvious, is just yet another reminder that the state DOES NOT care about your survival, it only exists to ensure its own survival.

• Folks who are equipped with solar are [http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/miami-frustrated-with-fpl-after-hurricane-irma-9666311 unable to use them:

https://twitter.com/MikeGrunwald/status/907673023867748358

• As well, Hours after the hurricane, homeowners were being cited by Miami Dade county, for code violations.

Other Significant Storms

• Puerto Rico has just been wiped off the map, and warns they may not be able to recover power to parts of the island for up to a year

• Non-trivial crop losses in india as well: Agrarian crisis continues to hit farmers in Dhenkanal

• Massive flooding AGAIN after last month's similar one -- Mumbai experiencing extreme rainfall -- more than a month's worth in 24 hours -- that killed many people

Growing season shrinking

• Norway (with pictures)

• Texas COLD temps

• UK: Is it Winter Already? Bitter Arctic winds bringing freezing temperatures AND SNOW
• California snow on last day of Summer

Earthquakes

Four MAJOR along ring of fire, in last 24 hours -- strike that, now one off coast of California:

• M6.4 hits Vanuatu
• Mexico experiencing a volcanic eruption the same day as its deadly quake

Volcano Alert level for Agung volcano raised to 3 (of 4), Bali, Indonesia

• https://watchers.news/2017/09/19/agung-volcano-bali-eruption-warning/

Extreme Rain/Flooding

200,000 homeless after 11,000 homes destroyed in Niger:

• https://watchers.news/2017/09/19/niger-floods-damage-casualties-2017/

Change of Tone -- Criminalizing Dissent

This is a hugely important item -- in fact, I did a separate video about it exclusively here (DTube / Youtube, and will source parts of it into this episode.

Suffice to say in the show notes:

The media is a weaponized social construct, used to program unthinking folks.

There has been a definite change in language and attitude. Before, Anthropogenic Global Warming "deniers" were associated with "flat earthers" by Obama and the pope, etc.. Now this "mocking" stage has advanced directly to full de-humanization:

• Canadian agency funded by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to the tune of almost $50 million annually

• Calls to punish skeptics rise with links to climate change, hurricanes

Additional "Modified Limited Hangout"

A September 12th Washington Post opinion piece by Fred Singer includes serious discussion and the terms "Geoengineering" and "global cooling!" I was so shocked, I mirrored the article here to archive.is/tZ7VR.

I have been equally surprised to see Dr. Sam Khoury's pieces. David DuByne recently spoke with Sam, but I think both these opinion pieces are being slowly leaked to push the narrative in a desired direction: just as NASA could not regain control over the narrative in April when they released toothless stories about a normal 11-year "solar minimum," so too are we now seeing the establishment really attempt to re-shift the overton window. From Singer's piece:

Climate cooling, as opposed to warming, presents serious problems for humanity. As cooling causes agriculture to fail, most of the world’s population will starve and we will be reduced from its present level to about a million, hunting animals and collecting nuts and seeds for sustenance. This has happened before during the ice ages, when nomadic bands of prehistoric humans had to shelter in caves for protection from the cold, and had to rely on uncertain supplies of food.

We need to distinguish between two kinds of climate cooling events. The first kind is “astronomical” — as studied by the Serbian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch — and determined by the orbit of the Earth in the solar system and the obliquity and precession of the spin axis. There’s very little we can do about that. In the past 2-3 million years, we have experienced about 20 of these glaciations, typically lasting 100,000 years, interrupted by interglacial warm periods of about 10,000 years. We’ve been in our present interglacial, which is called the Holocene epoch, for about 10,000 years, and many think we’re due for another glaciation within a few decades or centuries. Some disagree and think that the Holocene may last much longer, about 45,000 years.

The accepted way in which a glaciation begins is when a snow-ice field at high latitude survives the summer and then grows during the winter months, getting larger and larger all the time. The remedy is quite simple, at least in concept. We need to identify the surviving snow-ice fields, which can be done easily by means of weather satellites. Once we identify them, we can remove them by dumping black soot and allow the summer sun to melt the snow and ice. However, these concepts need to be tested, so experiments are in order.

The second kind of climate cooling is controlled by solar activity and has a short period of 1,000-1,500 years. Our civilization experienced what we call the Little Ice Age (LIA) from about 1400 to 1800 A.D. The cooling was severe enough to destroy agriculture and the budding civilization in southern Greenland. We observed serious effects of the cooling in Europe when harvests failed and people starved; epidemics caused additional deaths. Since about 1850, the climate has been recovering from the LIA, showing some warming.

Even though the cooling of a Little Ice Age is not as severe as an astronomical glaciation, we need to move urgently to counteract a future LIA. This is not simple, but greenhouse effects can help to warm the climate and overcome the cooling. For various reasons, release of carbon dioxide is not the best remedy; carbon dioxide is saturated and doesn’t have much additional climate impact. Furthermore, as far as we can tell, the recent LIA was patchy and individual cooling episodes lasted only years or decades.

In a nutshell, as opposed to global warming, global cooling is a very real problem for a number of reasons. Based on the historic past, we can be sure that cooling will occur again, and maybe very soon. When it does occur, it will have serious effects on agriculture and lead to mass starvation. Unlike for warming, geoengineering against cooling seems physically possible, relatively inexpensive and environmentally benign.

Daily Steps

It's that time of year! Everyone is storing / canning / preserving.

I could tell you many similar stories from folks in the community, or share instead this slice of American history, straight from the oven of 1945. Or actually, a couple highlights first:

• MountainMoma made manchego cheese; working on health/fitness (lost 5 lbs!)
• Stwood worked up and canned 7 quarts of my tomato juice recipe; tomorrow, we will work up some more pickled peppers. Still have 4-5 #'s of hot wax peppers that some are going bad. We gotta get em used up!
• Carl Stored food rotation and gun cleaning in the armory...diesel added for generator...new helper getting some OJT. Bought a half cord of soft wood, close, and restacked hard euc wood out back.
• MJWitt going to town on his new site, "Lots to do with setting up the new holdfast, so I've been quite busy. Setting up the new storage cistern (stairs, shelves, moving the supplies in, etc), Ordered a new propane powered gennie and poured the pad for it, making an appointment for my concealed permit. Also bought a canning rig and trying my had at some blackberry jam, apples/applesauce, and pickles. Next on the list a major overhaul and improvements to the storage shed (to turn into a workshop).

• On my front, I was building a new Cricket farm. Since I'm on bed rest right now, I've also been going to town on this Wiki:
  • I started adding problem-specific sections. For example, Anxiety or Diabetes are now pages that link to alternative/natural therapies/modalities.

How about you? What steps are you taking TODAY to ensure your food security TOMORROW?

Icebreaker: FLASHBACK! Canning Victory Gardens

But, like I said, most people are preserving right now. We should be packing away harvest for the winter, and saving seeds for next season.

Home canning soared during World War II, reaching its peak in 1943, with over 4.1 billion jars canned in homes and community canning centers (Bentley, 1998). Wartime canning and victory gardens were symbols of patriotism and heavily promoted by the government.

Home canning during World War II offered families on the home-front a way to supplement their food supplies when rationing was in effect. As an import, sugar, a home canning staple, was among the rationed items.

Sugar suppliers today are feeling the real pinch of a long year. Last year civilians used 6,100,000tons (including industrial use)….about 700,000 tons more than we could afford. This year if we are to live within our quota of 5,400,000 tons….and if each American family is to be assured of a fair share of that quota, tighter rationing is necessary.

A standard sugar ration was 5 pounds, but individuals who home canned could submit requests to their local rationing boards for up to 20 extra pounds of sugar expressly for canning, provided the applicant outline in detail their proposed canning plan (Question box, 1944).

Pressure canners were also rationed during the first years of the war due to their aluminum construction. As a result, sharing pressure canners with friends and family or utilizing community canning centers grew. The risk of malfunction also grew, however and women were advised to “use extreme care” when using pressure canners. Also, everyone should thoroughly clean and inspect canners before use and not leave pressure canners unattended while in use to prevent overheating and avoid explosions (Urges caution, 1943).

[W]atch out, community canners, don’t push these small steam pressure outfits too hard. We’re going to need them longer than just the summer. They’re built to handle about 300 or 400 jars a year at the most.

Pressure canners were necessary for canning low-acid foods, however and the USDA put pressure on the War Production Board to ease restrictions on pressure canner production.

Pressure canners are essential to can vegetables other than tomatoes. Manufacture of 630,000 has been authorized for 1945, compared to 40,000 in 1944. This year’s canners will not be rationed and will be available through regular commercial channels.

Rationing restrictions were lifted mid-1944 and significantly less emphasis was put on victory gardening and home canning by the government (Bentley, 1998). Food shortages towards the end of 1944, however necessitated a renewed effort by the government to support victory gardens and home canning, but participation never reached that of 1943 (Bentley, 1998).

Source: Canning Victory Gardens.

Item of the Day: Aquaponics Feed (Organic/Non-GMO)

I have placed nutrition info up on Aquaponic Fish Food:

• $12 for 2 pounds, will last a while if you're running smaller system (3-5 fish)