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[INSIDE] Tha Jackals Head W/ Dan Martin [06/29/2012]

Dan Martin

Dan Martin

THE AUTHOR:
Dan Martin was born in Detroit, Michigan , the eldest son of the eldest son, five generations long. The offspring of divorced parents, at thirteen Dan went on to live with his father high in the Rocky Mountains where he learned how to hunt, trap, work on engines and generally be self-sufficient.

At age seventeen, Dan joined the military, was stationed in Hawaii and eventually deployed and fought in Desert Shield. He received a degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Hawaii; and upon arriving back in the States, he attended the University of Texas studying physics and Engineering. It was also then that Dan volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and Greenpeace, where he must have gotten his first taste of living and working outside of the ‘norm’. He then went on to work for Boeing Aerospace on Air Force C-17 Globe Masters. During Dan’s time with Boeing, he attended San Antonio Community College, taking undergraduate courses in Pre-Med, Sociology, World History and Psychology, earning enough credits for a Ph.D. and another Bachelors degree. But he never wanted a degree, only the education itself.

Today’s faulty educational system led Dan to begin to realize that something was wrong with the world, but especially the United States. People moved around like “sheep,” to and from work and home as if asleep, essentially ignoring the planet around them. So in the spring of 2000, he spent all of his waking spare time in Central Mexico taking up odd part-time jobs, learning mechanics, welding, fire control, security, farming, ranching, construction, architecture, wood working, first response, sanitation, plumbing, electrical, heating and air-conditioning, and metal working, where he later met and married his wife, Lucia. They would then both re-enter the U.S. and live another year in San Antonio, Texas, before quitting his high-paying career with Boeing at the age of twenty-five; cashing in all his investments and 401K; selling all their homes and personal belongings, to move out into the desert, leaving the world, family, friends and the rest of the sheep behind.

For the next 6 years, the two lived 100% off-the-grid, completely cut-off from society. There were no electric lines, no telephone lines, no garbage or sewer service, no mail, no city water, no cell service, not even a road to the property. Dan built their home alone in the shape of an octagon without walls, completely open to the surrounding landscape so that they could live ‘with’ nature. They lived off rain water catchment, raised, bred and slaughtered goats, chickens, catfish, turkeys and ducks for food, made their own fuel and grew underground hydroponic fruits and vegetables.

Dan Martin became a consultant performing hundreds of similar sustainable living projects, teaching others about making their own renewable fuels and ways to harness alternative energies, along with building with natural materials and living independently. He has designed and overseen dozens of projects for governmental agencies as well as private corporations and overseas clients.

For the last three years, Martin has written and published over forty do-it-yourself guides on the subject–from how to make your own ethanol, to how to build your own solar panels. These books are all available on Amazon or on his non-profit organization website: www.agua-luna.com. Dan Martin has also drawn the attention of established newspapers, websites, and magazines from several countries, and has been the source of half a dozen radio and television interviews.

In 2010, he began writing Apocalypse, How to Survive a Global Crisis in preparation for 2012, which is an accumulation of his life’s work, education and experiences, in addition to writing his sustainability guides in preparation for the possible end of the world as we know it, to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar “or beyond.”

“Get ready, get a good seat, and witness the most violent display of nature that mother has to offer. When it’s all over, I’ll be sure to leave a light on for ya!” – Dan Martin

“it’s not the level of bad in someone’s heart; it’s the lack of good in someone’s soul.” – Dan Martin

THE BOOK:
Will the world, as we know it, end in 2012? It’s the intention of this book and the will of its author to teach you what you’ll need to know to survive IF it does. Spiritual prophecies, scientific predictions, meteor impacts, viral pandemics, economic/government collapse, solar flares, electrical grid collapse, climate change, floods, ice age, WW3, polar shifts, Planet X, peak oil, super tsunamis, alien invasions, how the government’s preparing. This book has it all and teaches how you and your family can survive it all: how to make shelters, electricity, weapons, grow/hunt food. It is a complete and total self-help guide for the common person, not only for the end times, but any global crisis, of which we seem to be having our fair share lately. Written by a retired Boeing Aerospace Technician who lived six years 100% self-sufficient and cut-off from society, Dan Martin presents an eye-opening view of humanity; and his insights into possible future events are breath-taking, to say the least. It makes you think, is the end closer than we think? Are any of us really prepared?

Apocalypse, How to Survive a Global Crisis is the first of Dan Martin’s three-part series, showing the reader first-hand knowledge and hands-on experience through the eyes of the author, step-by-step how to be self-sufficient. He illustrates how being entirely independent from society is not only possible in today’s world, but may even become imminent and necessary in the next. His views of humanity and insight into possible future events are eye-opening to say the least; yet, he always manages to follow up with creative and resilient means to handle and resolve the dilemmas that arise. Never has an author managed to capture and awaken so many souls with so few breaths!

The backbone of “Apocalypse” is filled with dozens of DIY lessons, illustrations, diagrams, charts, pictures, tables and descriptions, helping you to deal with and re-establish control over your life and your family’s life. Separated into ten well- laid-out chapters is information that: deals with what will happen just before, during and after any number of different possible apocalyptic cataclysms; teaches you how to prepare for such catastrophes beforehand, during and/or directly afterwards, along with step-by-step guides that walk you through building and acquiring shelter, water, food, security, energy, medical and transportation; and finally, explains what will need to be done to create a new world order, different from the last.

Apocalypse, How to Survive a Global Crisis can of course be utilized to survive dooms day scenarios, but yet won’t be obsolete if the end of the world doesn’t occur in our lifetime. It can still be applied to daily living out of or even in society to lower bills, debt, expenses, or to become completely self sufficient. In the end, Dan Martin may be literally transforming and possibly saving the lives of regular people all over the world.

—————Sites!
http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-How-Survive-Global-Crisis/dp/142765185X
www.ApocalypseTheBook.com
www.AGUA-LUNA.com

Evidence of Impending Tipping Point for Earth

New take on an ancient idea. Good movie stuff though. . .  . EDITOR

from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (June 6, 2012) — A group of scientists from around the world is warning that population growth, widespread destruction of natural ecosystems, and climate change may be driving Earth toward an irreversible change in the biosphere, a planet-wide tipping point that would have destructive consequences absent adequate preparation and mitigation. . . . Read Complete Article

 

Drought Blamed for Fall of Mayan Civilisation (Video Report)

Source: Reuters via AOL

Description:Researchers in Mexico say the mighty Mayan civilization that thrived in central America for 2700 years from 1800 BC, might have been brought down by climate change. Based on research deep underground, the scientists say there’s evidence of long-term drought during the period of population decline. (2:17) . . . SOURCE

 

Underground water in eastern Shasta County in California (US) mysteriously disappears

from The Watchers

April 17, 2012

 

Something strange is happening underground in eastern Shasta County and it is draining water wells and maybe even causing sinkholes and subsiding pavement. A retired marine geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, Stephen Wolf reveals that after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, water well levels in the area of the quake fell significantly. The drop in the water table in eastern Shasta County is the most dramatic that residents have seen in the past 10 to 15 years. Shasta County is located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The county occupies the northern reaches of the Sacramento Valley, with portions extending into the southern reaches of the Cascade Range.

Last October, 131 earthquakes hit the Lassen Peak area. Most were less than 2.0 in magnitude. But since then the water table has fallen significantly.  Seismic activity may be affecting wells. The seismic activity further fractures the rocky, volcanic soil, allowing the water to flow deeper into the Earth. Officials at the USGS said they are hesitant to draw a correlation between the quakes and the drop in the water level in Cassel (it sits at an elevation of 3,176 feet (968 m)). . . . Read Complete Report

Go DEEPER: Big Foot, the Abominable Sandman, Nessie  and the People who live under Mt. Shasta.

Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift

from PHYS ORG

posted: April 25, 2012

The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation and climate. The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau was an important factor of global climate change during the late Cenozoic and strongly influenced the development of the Asian monsoon system. However, there have been heated debates about the history and process of Tibetan Plateau uplift, especially elevations in different geological ages.

In PNAS Early Edition online April 23, 2012, Dr. Tao Deng from Institute of and Paleoanthropology, , and his team report a well-preserved skeleton of a 4.6 million-year-old three-toed horse (Hipparion zandaense) from the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet. . . . Read Complete Report w/diagrams

UPDATE: ‘Lost World’ Reached: 20 Million Yr Old Antarctic Lake ‘Drilled’

from RT.com

After 30 years spent drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice crust, researchers have finally broken through to a unique subglacial lake. Scientists are set to reveal its 20-million-year-old secrets, and imitate a quest to discover ET life.

The Vostok project breathes an air of mystery and operates at the frontiers of human knowledge. The lake is one of the major discoveries in modern geography; drilling operations at such depths are unprecedented; never before has a geological project required such subtle technologies.

The main inspiration for the project – the Russian scientist who posited the lake’s existence – died just six months before the moment of contact with the lake’s surface. Now, the whole world is looking to Lake Vostok for crucial data which might help to predict climate change.

Yesterday [on Sunday] our scientists at the Vostok polar station in the Antarctic completed drilling at depths of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the subglacial lake,” RIA Novosti reported, quoting an unnamed Russian scientist. . . Read complete report