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I read today about the study showing aspirin could play a pivotal role in beating cancer.

Other than stomach issues, aspirin seems to be a fairly decent pain reliever, thinning blood to help prevent clots and heart attacks.
Take with food, drink a full glass of water afterwards and the stomach issue is reduced. I found that actually letting them dissolve in water, before swallowing helps it enter the system faster.

http://news.yahoo.com/aspirin-could-beat-cancer-spread-australian-study-061326467.html

The study does say its been shown to reduce the rate of occurrence in several known cancers. Now, if its proven to shut down the actual tumor itself, once begun, that would be a huge step for humanity.

I know rebellions are messy. If you look at our own, back in 1776, Americans were gunned down in the square, British attempting to squash the quest for freedom. Other nations have been birthed in violence. The price, while great, is the price to be paid. No one's gonna hand it to you on a platter.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7398346n

What's most disturbing is news that children are dying at the hands of snipers. Kids shouldn't be the target. I guess bible readers know that in the old testament, everyone, men, women and children were wiped out as the chosen people made their way to the promise land. God told them to.

Still disturbing. Kids are our innocents. Or, we like to think that. The dad who blew up his house, killing two young sons in Tacoma, Washington is seriously disturbing. Why kill them, even if you as a dad are suicidal, those beautiful boys that were loved by many family members? 

The Syrian government doesn't care about its people, just cares about power. We've watched this play out in other countries like Libya, Egypt during what the journalists are calling the Arab Spring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Spring

We've seen police coming down hard on Occupy people. I'm not a pacifist, self-defense is a human right. So, it's disturbing that while the surface looks normal, serious financial inequality is undercutting us as a nation. Its a rape of the middle class, and self-defense is a normal reaction.

Are we safe here in America? The republicans are talking about our core values. I sometimes wonder if they are "core" at all. When the SHTF, will we be just another Arab thing? 
Time will soon tell.

I saw a youtube clip on my facebook page today. Its a heads up on the Occupy Chicago May 1, 2012. So, I went to youtube and did a search. There are several posted:



I was going to post today about learning survival common plants, but this is really way bigger for the survivalist. What sort of turn out can be expected?



They hope to draw 500,000, did I read that right? That is going to be one hoedown. These clips actually are presenting real ideas, and a growing movement of resistance and demand. Politicians, will they take notice?




Ok, so back to my edible plants.

As the female survivalist, I'm often coming to terms with what some might call gender bias. I don't know, does it still exist? Some claim that females aren't taken seriously in the thriller-survialist novel genre. I found it harder to write "love" scenes, or raw visuals, so decided to change my signature and see what happens. I'm feeling more Dangerous already!


An End of Days by C.J. Wellman.

Book Two, All Hell Won't Wait will be changed to sequence this, later this week, under my Pen name (just initials, nothing dramatic). We'll see what happens.

I guess sinc I have decided to do a "pen name" for my novels, they're a little harder to find.

Many thanks to Flo for her encouragements!
Ok, so here's the scoop, and the reason I haven't posted in a week.
This whole fiction apocalyptic adventure began when I asked myself: If the power grid went down, or say, Washington D.C was taken out by terrorists, how long would it take us, back in the boonies, to find out?
I started writing a fiction novel about that idea, exploring it. We've been without power for days, and we'd just sorta figure it was the same thing, a tree down, equipment failure, whatever. It might be a week before we ever found out for sure.
As I wrote the book, I thought about all the skills we would need to help us survive the thing. I ended up buying a woodstove, figuring out a passive water system, bought a solar shower.

One thing led to another and a second book, and third, evolved. They call these little 22,000 word books novellas. I explored what would happen if say, my man was killed by bad bears, and I was out here alone to deal with enemy factions.

I am from the north, and not so comfortable with weapons, I'm admitting that right now. I'm working on my self defense skills.

Then, I thought about a very dark side, like a woman could go rouge, became indifferent or even fascinated by bloodshed, after going through hell defending herself and her family. People might turn into cannibals. It would be easy to prey on the weak human element instead of actually hunting, fishing, or making gardens.

When these smaller books were finished, it occurred to me that the government issues should be dealt with. What if the feds could recover, move the headquarters, enact martial law and try to take back their power?

Bottom line, I've been doing a revision, and all four books have been compiled into this one, hence no blog for nearly a week. Sort of regrouping, using my initials as a pen name for fiction.
Book two involves the feds getting ready to retake the control. I've been researching ham radios. How else would the citizens tell each other the feds were coming, going to come down hard on local governments trying to help their own people survive a shit hits the fan scenario? The Greeks and Romans sent runners. We had a pony express before telegraphs. Boat people could bring news, like the mountain men did in their great rondevous.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio

The ham radio thing is in my mind, and I'm looking at this old time skill in a new way. Is it a dying skill? Our modern wifi and satelite communications are power dependent, we need the grid for them to work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_homebrew
According to this link, ham radios can use as little as one watt of power, totally do able with solar or ethanol survivalist skills.

How about carrier pigeons, would they be used as well to relay information, warning of the military action against non-compliants? How far would the military go to retake the country? Probably heads would roll.

I've uploaded this revision, and I think its way better, and flows. It should be available tomorrow, an e-book.

I'm reading The Death of Albert Johnson-Mad Trapper of Rat River , by Heritage House Publishing Co.

Albert Johnson was a sketchy individual who built himself an 8 x 12 fortress up near the Klondike in Canada. He dug 3 feet deep, built 5 foot walls, sloping roof, and covered it all with 2 feet of dirt. This structure was chinked with dirt, too, with a stout door, actually underwent a dynamite invasion and the man survived.

But, back to the story. The guy wasn't so much big as an endurance expert. Able to single handedly paddle upstream to the Rat River, accomplishing feats the mounted Police wondered at.

Trouble was, he wouldn't answer the door when they came knocking. Frustrated, the visiting police report him, obtain a search warrant and reinforcements. Johnson fires through his own front door, hitting a man and that is the end of life as he knew it.

This drama played out in the Northwest Territories in 1931-1932. His house was small enough he could shoot from inside in all four directions after knocking out some chinks. Then the dyanimte bundle was launched, hit the roof, exploded. No one thought he could survive, but he did and proceeded to lead his enemies on a chase through out the region.

The guy should have probably answered the door.
I was impressed by his endurance, able to lay 2 miles of false trail for every one mile of true. He would wear his snowshoes backwards, then retrace again. He'd cross rivers and mountains said to be impossible.

This leads to the conclusion, to survive a shit hits the fan scenario, we need to be in Shape!

Eventually they do catch the guy and a shoot out occurs on a frozen lake, resulting in17 bullets taking out Johnson. One of his sins is that he was a "hermit", taciturn and independent to the point of rudeness.  

There's always two sides to a story. The guy wanted to be left alone in the frozen wilderness to trap and smoke his pipe. He didn't fit in, he did have skills.

This book is 94 pages with a lot of photos. An interesting read.

It's been pretty warm here in North East Georgia, so no snow to play in so far. I'm from the north, and snow, ice and sub zero temps were the norm. I saw this really good clip about Extreme Survival on the Weather Channel. Several people gave their stories, among them a neat Japanese dude who says its way better than a round of golf. He loves it out there, near Mt. Rainier, bring it baby.

http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/chaser-describes-birmingham-storm-damage-25791#loc=62/436/25739
He used his socks to start his fire, then burned $6 in cash to start it.

The weather channel has a great site, though:
http://www.weather.com/weather/videos/news-41/top-stories-169/chaser-describes-birmingham-storm-damage-25791

This link tells the importance of layers, keeping those layers clean for maximum warmth:

http://dsc.discovery.com/adventure/extreme-cold-weather-survival-tips-2.html

This goes right along with keeping your sleeping bag clean. If you find its not doing the job anymore, try washing it before throwing it out.

I washed my Marmot 800 goose down bag after literally hundreds of nights/ thousands of trail miles. Its good as new...well, taking into account the tiny hole that's been stitched up, and some abrasion from AT shelter floors.

Anyways, my whole take away from this was: in a survival situation, what are the things, or thing I would want, most of all.
My list:

Fire tools, first and foremost, redundancy is fine, preferred, actually: matches, lighter, flint, cotton and petroleum firestarters. A candle would be nice. Take plenty and double bag for water protection. In a survival situation, those extra baggies can collect water or food.

A vapor barrier, large plastic bags, silnylon tarp, rain suit, plastic sheeting all fit in this category. Perfect for holding body warmth in, protection from the elements, allowing to sleep on dry surface, able to walk out.

Cutting tool, preferably a decent knife, razor blade, emergency saw.  I don't go for these multipurpose tools, but that would fit here too. These would be useful in many ways, cutting limbs for shelter, firewood, cordage. Really, its the last on the list cause a person can make due without a cutting implement.

Most importantly, this list does me no good unless its with me. I've got this stuff in my car. I need to carry it on my trails. Day hikers get lost, adventurers get turned around. Add some food, and its amazing.  One story told of a lady surviving 7 weeks on jerky and gorp when their vehicle became stranded in Nevada.