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Friends and Gentle Readers:
    I just cannot say enough praises for having the good sense and wisdom "from Above," when I bought a great, larger Kerosene Heater --- "Glo Flo" and stocked up on some fuel, too, about a year and a half ago !!   Guys and Gals, you just don't want to be cold !   And your kids/ children don't have the subcutaneous "body fat" to keep them warm in the Winter time, either.   I believe that most Americans are woefully ill-- under Prepared.... sorry. Fervent prayer to Father God always help us --- but God gave us a BRAIN to think and solve problems and to reason, so why not use it, and also share your knowledge.   Are you all afraid of getting laughed at ?   Duh....    I have had many people in the past come up to me and tell me that they were sorry for not listening to me and planning ahead, or avoiding certain things and wicked people.
        I could only download, cut and paste half of the important info about staying warm in colder climates, after the SHTF, etc., so please try to find the whole article with what I was able to down load.... print or study it well.

--- Tom Schuckman
Email:   tschuckman @aol.com

Prepping 101 9 Ways to Heat Yourself Post-SHTF

9 Ways to Heat Yourself Post-SHTF

Mark W.

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When SHTF, the first things most people will focus on is trying to find food and water. But if you’re a prepper you know that while water is critically important to your long-term survival, the ability to stay warm and to heat yourself post-SHTF can mean the difference between life and death.
Frostbite and hypothermia can set in very quickly, in less than five minutes on cold days when the wind is blowing, and even in moderate weather if you are wet.
So, one of the major things that preppers need to plan for when SHTF is how to stay warm in your home or other shelter and how to heat yourself if you are stranded outdoors unexpectedly for any length of time. In fact, knowing and planning for ways to heat yourself and stay warm is important even for short-term emergencies like a power outage.

Ways to Keep Your Body Warm

Understanding how to stay warm is critical to being able to heat yourself post-SHTF. The best ways to keep your body warm is to prevent heat loss as much as possible.

1. Conduction

Prevent the direct transfer of heat from your body by using a sleeping bag if you are outdoors or a pad of thick blankets or thick layer of dry debris between you and the cold ground. Anything you can put down between you and the ground or use to raise yourself up off the ground will help to slow your loss of body heat and will keep you warmer.

2. Convection

Cover Up
Body heat is lost when air moves over exposed skin, also called wind chill. We all know that if you are outside it’s a good idea to have gloves, a scarf, and insulated boots in the colder climates. If your mother was anything like mine, she told you to cover your head because she was convinced that you lose most of your body heat through the top of your head.
This old wives’ tale has actually been proven false in recent years. In truth, you lose the same amount of heat through the top of your head as from any other body part with a similar area of exposed skin.
But even though you don’t lose most of your body heat through your head, you can still have a body heat loss of up to 10% by leaving your head exposed. So, in addition to covering other body parts, covering your head with a hat, blanket, or scarf, can help you retain body heat and therefore stay warmer.

If you find yourself in a survival situation without layers, or if you are still cold, you can use a heat reflecting blanket such as a space blanket or even paper, newspaper, or any kind of dry debris such as grass or leaves to stop wind from getting through your clothing to your skin if you have nothing else.

3. Radiation

Layers to Trap Air
Another good way to heat yourself post-SHTF is to always wear layers of clothing. Layers help to trap the heat your body dissipates naturally.
The middle layer serves as extra insulation. It needs to be something that moist air can pass through. Fleece, down, even wool are great options for the middle layer. The outer layer is the shell and should be both breathable and waterproof.
Nalgene Bottle filled with boiling water and slipped inside an old wool sock will keep a bed warm for up to 10-12 hours. You can also heat bricks or rocks in a fire or stove and put them under your blankets near your feet and they will radiate heat.
Share Body Heat
If you have at least one other person in your survival group, you can cuddle up to share body heat. If there are more than two of you, put those most vulnerable to the cold between the others, those in the middle of a body heat sandwich are the warmest.

4. Evaporation

One of the best ways to heat yourself post-SHTF is to control the amount of heat that evaporates from your body. Evaporative loss happens when we get too sweaty.
This is why when using clothing layers, the layer closest to your skin should be something that breathes and wicks away moisture, such as merino wool or a synthetic blend. Any kind of barrier, such when mom used to put plastic bags over your sock feet, will limit the heat loss by evaporation.
Hand Warmers or Body Warmers

If you’ve planned ahead and included a few air activated hand warmers or even body warmers in your bug out bag, you can use these to help stave off the cold and heat yourself in a survival situation.
If you didn’t plan ahead, you can even make your own hand warmers by filling pockets of insulating material such as fleece or flannel with grains of rice and heating them for five minutes on the top of a wood stove.
Keep Moving
If you’ve spent any amount of time outdoors, you probably know that you feel warmer when you are moving then when you are sitting still. This is because heat is generated by muscular work. To put it simply, movement causes your body to produce heat. So another way to heat yourself post-SHTF is to keep moving as much as possible.

Ways to Heat Your Home or Space

5. Permanent and semi-permanent fixtures

Fixtures installed in advance, such as a fireplace, can be used to heat your home post-SHTF well. But if you have the option to choose, go for a something like a wood burning stove, wood-fired cookstove, or even a rocket stove heater, or a potbelly stove.
These can not only be used to heat your home more efficiently than a fireplace, but they can also be used more easily to cook food and heat hot water in a long-term SHTF situation. Get a stove that can use a variety of fuels including wood, peat, coal, and even used vegetable oil so you can use whatever is available to you.
Additional things you can do in advance of a SHTF situation include ventless gas wall heaters such as the Thermablaster or stormproof furnace units like the Empire Blue Flame which kicks on if you lose your main heat source. If your home has southern exposure, you can install a solar room with a collector and solar powered fan.
In an outdoor space, a campfire, Swedish log fire, fire pit, Kotatsu (Japanese fire table) or chimenea can provide warmth for those around it. The type of outdoor fire you use will largely depend on whether you plan ahead and whether you are on the move or have the luxury of bugging in.

6. Portable Heaters

Many people are familiar with kerosene heaters. These do not require electricity but instead use kerosene fuel to operate. The larger ones are 23,000 BTUs and will be great for larger spaces. For those with smaller spaces or who are on a budget, the smaller 10,000 BTU heaters work well and uses less fuel. Make sure you buy and install battery powered CO2 detectors if possible and use plenty of ventilation.
Another option for a portable heater are the Mr. Buddy and Little Buddy propane heaters. These run using propane tanks from 1 pound to 40 pounds. The larger heater has connections for two tanks, the smaller has one connection. The reflector model screws directly to a 20-pound tank. You can find old tanks at flea markets or yard sales or even abandoned in a SHTF situation. Just one pound of propane will operate the heater for 5-6 hours on the low setting.
The portable Frontier Stove or Traveller Stove are two other ways to heat yourself. These can be used outdoors or even inside a tent or yurt with the proper fire safety precautions.

7. Lanterns

Obviously, propane lanterns, oil lamps, or kerosene Lamps are not designed to be used for heat. But they can give off a small amount of heat that can raise the temperature in their immediate area if you need to heat yourself post-SHTF in a survival type situation. Using lanterns for heat inside an enclosed space or for an extended period of time should be a last resort option and is not recommended due to safety issues.

8. Stop Drafts and Slow Heat Loss

One of the biggest ways to stay warm in your home and heat yourself is to stop drafts coming in and stop heat going out.
● Insulated Window Treatments
● Bubble Wrap on Windows
● Caulking around windows
● Use a draft blocker or towel on bottom of exterior doors.
● Add weather stripping around doors
● Install storm doors
● Use plastic window film for windows and sliding glass doors

9. Eat the Right Foods

Believe it or not, there are certain foods you can eat that will kickstart the thermogenesis process in your body. As you digest certain foods your body begins to produce energy. When the mitochondria get involved in digestion, heat is produced.
So, one of the ways to “heat yourself” is to eat root vegetables such as kale, potatoes, cabbage, and sweet potatoes, or carrots, which are more effective in raising internal heat as you digest them.
Other foods that help raise internal body temperature include peanuts, brown rice, coconut oil, and fresh ginger. Hot peppers increase circulation and can raise body temperature slightly.
Warm meals may provide immediate short-term temperature increase and possibly stop the shivers long enough for you to make a more substantial meal, but it won’t last near as long as eating raw vegetables.

Final Words

The best way to heat yourself post-SHTF of course is to plan ahead as much as possible so that you have a heat source that doesn’t require electricity and is sustainable for a longer-term period. But it never hurts to be prepared with the knowledge of some of the other methods to raise your body temperature. If you get caught without a backup heat source or if you have to bug out, the odds will be more in your favor.

Hillary Clinton And Our Hypersonic Missile Gap With Russia

George Rasley, CHQ Editor | 3/5/18

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin used his state-of-the-nation speech to deliver a stern warning to the United States that Russia possesses hypersonic weapons that can render NATO’s U.S.-led missile defense system completely “useless.”
Putin confirmed our thoughts about the era of hypersonic is now, and an arms race among major superpowers is well underway; he said, all countries with a high level of scientific potential “are actively developing Russian missile

hypersonic weapons.”
Here is the bombshell: “Russia already possesses such weapons,” the president announced. He warned that the world’s leading armies (China, Russia, and the United States) are in a hypersonic arms race. The Russian possession of hypersonic weapons has spurred a modern, compact and hi-tech revolution of Armed Forces, Putin added.
“We can say with full grounds: Russia has created modern Armed Forces, which are compact and hi-tech troops for this huge territory, with the officer corps as its heart, where every officer is ready for any sacrifice for its nation,” he said according to our friends at ZeroHedge.com.
One might fairly ask, as Americans did back in the 1960s, how did this “missile gap” come to be, given the vast difference in the size of the American economy vs. the Russian economy?
The answer, it turns out, lies with Hillary Clinton and her infamous Russian “reset.”
Less than a year ago our friend Diana West, author of the must-read books American Betrayal and The Death of the Grown Up, wrote a piece for the Daily Caller in which she called attention to emails obtained by Citizens United, “Clinton Foundation staff pushed Hillary Clinton’s State Department to approve a meeting between Bill Clinton and a powerful Russian oligarch as her agency lined up investors for a project under his purview.”
His name was Viktor Vekselberg of Renova (a Clinton Foundation donor) and the project under his purview was the Skolkovo Innovation Center, which was being built near Moscow. The following month, Bill Clinton would receive $500,000 for a speech in Moscow from a Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin, a Clinton Foundation donor, a Skolkovo executive, and which talked up Uranium One, whose sale the Clinton State Department would approve, and whose executives together contributed $145 million to the Clinton Foundation.
The shocking set of emails that West dissected last year, shows the nexus of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s foundation, Hillary Clinton’s State Department, Bill Clinton, Russian oligarch Vekselberg, and Skolkovo, “Russia’s Silicon Valley,” the Putin project to transfer Western technology to Russia that was championed and driven by Mrs. Clinton — and, what do you know, 17 out of 28 tech companies that hitched up with Skolkovo also contributed to the Clinton Foundation? What a coincidence. Meanwhile, Barack Obama’s support for Russian WTO membership made the whole global flow so much easier.
What should get the attention of American counterintelligence is that the threat posed by the Russian hypersonic missile program was known from an Army report on Skolkovo released in 2013 and highlighted by Peter Schweizer in his 2016 report, "From Russian with Money," to assess “the implications … for U.S. policymakers.”

Although military activities are not an official cluster of activity, the Skolkovo Foundation has, in fact, been involved in defense-related activities since December 2011, when it approved the first weapons-related project—the development of a hypersonic cruise missile engine. The project is a response to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, part of the Prompt Global Strike program.

In her 2017 article, West noted that in November 2016, shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, the US Air Force released a report on the Russian and Chinese hypersonic missile threat to the United States:

The United States is vulnerable to future attack by hypersonic missiles from China and Russia and is falling behind in the technology race to develop both defensive and offensive high-speed maneuvering arms, according to a new Air Force study. “The People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation are already flight-testing high-speed maneuvering weapons (HSMWs) that may endanger both forward deployed U.S. forces and even the continental United States itself,” an executive summary of the report says. “These weapons appear to operate in regimes of speed and altitude, with maneuverability that could frustrate existing missile defense constructs and weapon capabilities.”

In a functioning democratic republic, argued West, the executive branch decisions and procedures and corruption that led to this defense cataclysm would actually alarm security officials, lawmakers, and even arouse media curiosity, if nothing else. But Skolkovo, the money, the corruption, the treachery, the danger, inspire no reaction at all.
Indeed, in a recent email exchange West observed that “from what I can tell, media/Pentagon/politicians are not making the vital connection between Putin's hypersonic weapons and Obama-Clinton ‘reset’ project of Skolkovo, where Russia's hypersonic capabilities appear to have been born.”
Not even after they were informed in this plain, shocking language, from the Army, circa 2012 cited by Ms. West a year ago:

Skolkovo is an ambitious enterprise, aiming to promote technology transfer generally, by inbound direct investment, and occasionally, through selected acquisitions. As such, Skolkovo is arguably an overt alternative to clandestine industrial espionage—with the additional distinction that it can achieve such a transfer on a much larger scale and more efficiently.

Hillary Clinton, her State Department, the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton, did much to make Skolkovo possible — did much to activate what was, according to the Army report, “arguably” a massive “clandestine industrial espionage” operation.
Not that any of this is in the past argued West. This plain-sight-“research”-cum-collusion with the Russian government goes on, and goes on unchecked — and despite the Obama administration’s supposedly hard-as-nails, cold-as-ice, tough-on-Russia finish and subsequent sanctions on Russia enacted by the Republican-controlled Congress in reaction to the alleged Russian election hacking and alleged Trump collusion hysteria.
The 2012 Army report cited by West continues:

Implicit in Russia’s development of Skolkovo is a critical question—a question that Russia may be asking itself—why bother spying on foreign companies and government laboratories if they will voluntarily hand over all the expertise Russia seeks? Since multinational institutions hire talent worldwide and seek access to foreign markets without regard for national interest, only the U.S. government would be in a position to persuade them to scale back their commitments in Skolkovo if U.S. relations with Russia continue to deteriorate. However, given the global dimensions of Skolkovo’s technology transfer program, it is not clear how much leverage U.S. industry has. Therefore, the key issue for U.S. policymakers is balancing the benefits of constructive technological engagement with Russia against the risks that Russia could leverage transferred scientific knowledge to modernize and strengthen its military.

A year ago, Ms. West observed that “Whether that is the key issue for U.S. policymakers, circa 2017, one thing seems clear. They haven’t heard of it, and they don’t care.” And nothing seems to have changed in the past 11 months, Washington’s policymakers haven’t heard of Skolkovo Russia’s largest and most ambitious technology espionage program, and they don’t care.
Coming on the heels of the confidential informant’s revelations about the Uranium One deal, Diana West’s prescient article revealing Hillary Clinton’s role in the hypersonic missile gap is more proof that establishment Washington’s hysteria over “Russian influence” on Donald Trump has nothing whatsoever to do with the security of the American people or the preservation of our constitutional republic.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Hypersonic Missile Gap with Russia.

9 Ways to Heat Yourself Post-SHTF