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    <updated>2009-11-20T15:47:32Z</updated>
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    <title>Note from JWR:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:40:47Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T15:47:32Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[The special sale on the &quot;Rawles Gets You Ready&quot; family preparedness course is in full swing. There are just a handful of copies of the bonus book still available. (A free copy of my latest nonfiction book, &quot;How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It&quot;.) Today...]]></summary>
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        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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        <![CDATA[The special sale on the &quot;Rawles Gets You Ready&quot; family preparedness course is in full swing. There are just a handful of copies of the bonus book still available. (A free copy of my latest nonfiction book, &quot;How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It&quot;.) Today...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Letter Re: Short Term Survival or Long Term Self-Sufficiency?</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:39:12Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:40:23Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[ Hi James, You have an excellent blog. It is good to find another right-wing Christian who thinks we&rsquo;re going down the wrong path, and someone who cares about other people. I have to take issue with your blog though. It focuses on survival in the short term (maximum five...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Hi James, You have an excellent blog. It is good to find another right-wing Christian who thinks we&rsquo;re going down the wrong path, and someone who cares about other people. I have to take issue with your blog though. It focuses on survival in the short term (maximum five...]]>
        
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    <title>Letter Re: Converting Precious Metals ETFs to Physical Metals</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:38:03Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:38:45Z</updated>
    
    <summary> Dear CPT Rawles, To follow up on the recent thread about cashing out of precious metals ETFs: Long ago, I took your advice and got out of stocks for my IRA and switched to a Gold IRA with Swiss America . It&apos;s done quite well and I was fortunate...</summary>
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        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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         Dear CPT Rawles, To follow up on the recent thread about cashing out of precious metals ETFs: Long ago, I took your advice and got out of stocks for my IRA and switched to a Gold IRA with Swiss America . It&apos;s done quite well and I was fortunate...
        
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    <title>Six  Letters Re: Oral Rehydration Solutions</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:37:06Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:37:36Z</updated>
    
    <summary> Jim, During my many travels in Asia and Central America I never brought along medications to stop diarrhea, only to prevent it. Diarrhea is natures way of getting rid of something your body doesn&apos;t want in it. Preventing that can lead to serious problems. Water and food born bugs...</summary>
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         Jim, During my many travels in Asia and Central America I never brought along medications to stop diarrhea, only to prevent it. Diarrhea is natures way of getting rid of something your body doesn&apos;t want in it. Preventing that can lead to serious problems. Water and food born bugs...
        
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    <title>Letter Re: Parabolic Dish Shoutcasting</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:35:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:36:24Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Mr. Rawles, Regarding Skyrat&apos;s and other SurvivalBlog.com readers that may be interested in obtaining large C-Band dishes for Shoutcasting, I have a potential free source: I work in the satellite industry and often receive calls requesting that decommissioned and obsolete C-Band dishes be removed from the roofs or ground mounts...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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        Mr. Rawles, Regarding Skyrat&apos;s and other SurvivalBlog.com readers that may be interested in obtaining large C-Band dishes for Shoutcasting, I have a potential free source: I work in the satellite industry and often receive calls requesting that decommissioned and obsolete C-Band dishes be removed from the roofs or ground mounts...
        
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<entry>
    <title>Economics and Investing:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:34:37Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:34:57Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[Jesse sent this: Short-Term Economic Boost from Fiscal Stimulus Outweighed by Long-Term Output Loss Also from Jesse: Why the Stock Market Should Crash From reader HPD: Bank Regulators &quot;Reign of Terror&quot; on Small Business Loans Items from The Economatrix: Stimulus Watch: Did the White House downplay errors in rush to...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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            <category term="Economics &amp; Investing" />
    
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        <![CDATA[Jesse sent this: Short-Term Economic Boost from Fiscal Stimulus Outweighed by Long-Term Output Loss Also from Jesse: Why the Stock Market Should Crash From reader HPD: Bank Regulators &quot;Reign of Terror&quot; on Small Business Loans Items from The Economatrix: Stimulus Watch: Did the White House downplay errors in rush to...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Odds &apos;n Sods:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:33:39Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:34:10Z</updated>
    
    <summary> We&apos;ve had a tough deer and elk season here at the Rawles Ranch. Thusfar, we&apos;ve filled just two deer tags, and haven&apos;t yet got an elk. The season has been difficult because there have been two hard winters in succession with deep snow that have taken their toll on...</summary>
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        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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         We&apos;ve had a tough deer and elk season here at the Rawles Ranch. Thusfar, we&apos;ve filled just two deer tags, and haven&apos;t yet got an elk. The season has been difficult because there have been two hard winters in succession with deep snow that have taken their toll on...
        
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    <title>Jim&apos;s Quote of the Day:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-21T02:23:31Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T02:23:48Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[&quot;The new danger was that when the peasants finally refused to deliver produce to the towns, the towns would go and fetch it. It had happened in Austria during the blockade. It had happened in the Ruhr and the Rhineland under the provocation of French militarism and enforced idleness. Now...]]></summary>
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        <![CDATA[&quot;The new danger was that when the peasants finally refused to deliver produce to the towns, the towns would go and fetch it. It had happened in Austria during the blockade. It had happened in the Ruhr and the Rhineland under the provocation of French militarism and enforced idleness. Now...]]>
        
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    <title>Letter Re: Oral Rehydration Solutions</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:31:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T14:21:58Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Sir: My recent trip to the library and skimming through a few books on diseases led me to the conclusion that some of the secondary or follow-on effects are often bigger killers that the diseases themselves. I&apos;m talking about pneumonia and diarrhea. Respiratory bugs often develop co-infections like pneumonia. And...</summary>
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        Sir: My recent trip to the library and skimming through a few books on diseases led me to the conclusion that some of the secondary or follow-on effects are often bigger killers that the diseases themselves. I&apos;m talking about pneumonia and diarrhea. Respiratory bugs often develop co-infections like pneumonia. And...
        
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    <title>Seven Letters Re: Getting a Christian Wife Involved With Preparedness</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:30:17Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T17:20:59Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[ Dear Mr. Rawles, I just came across a post that might give some more ideas to the gentleman who wrote in about getting his wife &quot;on board&quot; with preparedness efforts. It's titled &quot;All Aboard&quot; and was posted over on Kathy Harrison's The Just In Case Book Blog. (As may...]]></summary>
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        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[ Dear Mr. Rawles, I just came across a post that might give some more ideas to the gentleman who wrote in about getting his wife &quot;on board&quot; with preparedness efforts. It's titled &quot;All Aboard&quot; and was posted over on Kathy Harrison's The Just In Case Book Blog. (As may...]]>
        
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    <title>Influenza Pandemic Update:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:29:22Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T03:29:50Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[Radio Nederland reports: Ukraine paralysed by &quot;superflu&quot; Receptor Binding Domain Change D225G Confirmed in Ukraine H1N1 Receptor Binding Jumps in China, Australia Raise Concerns In rough translation: Forensic Physician Told UNIAN, From What People Are Dying Ukraine Dead Increase to 315, Still No Sequences. Poland now reporting fatalities, Belarus also...]]></summary>
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        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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        <![CDATA[Radio Nederland reports: Ukraine paralysed by &quot;superflu&quot; Receptor Binding Domain Change D225G Confirmed in Ukraine H1N1 Receptor Binding Jumps in China, Australia Raise Concerns In rough translation: Forensic Physician Told UNIAN, From What People Are Dying Ukraine Dead Increase to 315, Still No Sequences. Poland now reporting fatalities, Belarus also...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Economics and Investing:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:27:31Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T03:27:55Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[Tom B suggested this from WorldNetDaily: $120 Trillion in Derivatives. &ldquo;They are privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.&rdquo; Evi recommended this: Glenn Beck comments on a dollar collapse and global government. Items from The Economatrix: Stock Market Falls as Home Construction Slows Where Are Stocks, Economy Headed? Even Pros...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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            <category term="Economics &amp; Investing" />
    
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        <![CDATA[Tom B suggested this from WorldNetDaily: $120 Trillion in Derivatives. &ldquo;They are privatizing the profits and socializing the losses.&rdquo; Evi recommended this: Glenn Beck comments on a dollar collapse and global government. Items from The Economatrix: Stock Market Falls as Home Construction Slows Where Are Stocks, Economy Headed? Even Pros...]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Odds &apos;n Sods:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:26:01Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T03:26:52Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Reader Chris B. wrote to mention that a software update glitch caused him to lose all of the address book data on his Blackberry. He wanted to remind folks to periodically write down (or upload and print out) all of the phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses that you keep...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
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        Reader Chris B. wrote to mention that a software update glitch caused him to lose all of the address book data on his Blackberry. He wanted to remind folks to periodically write down (or upload and print out) all of the phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses that you keep...
        
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    <title>Jim&apos;s Quote of the Day:</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T03:24:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-19T03:25:33Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[&quot;It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.&quot; - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moli&egrave;re...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[&quot;It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.&quot; - Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moli&egrave;re...]]>
        
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    <title>Letter Re: Getting a Christian Wife Involved With Preparedness</title>
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    <published>2009-11-19T02:53:22Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-18T04:23:44Z</updated>
    
    <summary><![CDATA[Mr. Rawles, I've been into the survivalist genre since I first read [the novel] Alas, Babylon [by Pat Frank] about 10 years ago. Since then i've read just about every book on the subject I can get hold of. I ran across your novel &quot;Patriots&quot; about six months ago and...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>James Wesley, Rawles</name>
        <uri>http://www.survivalblog.com</uri>
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        <![CDATA[Mr. Rawles, I've been into the survivalist genre since I first read [the novel] Alas, Babylon [by Pat Frank] about 10 years ago. Since then i've read just about every book on the subject I can get hold of. I ran across your novel &quot;Patriots&quot; about six months ago and...]]>
        
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