First, remember I am merely an “enlightened amateur” as far as anything survival goes. Please vet & check on your own. Consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.
Second, the hour is late and I fear bad times are imminent, but even a month of food, water, etc., puts you well ahead of most of the sheeple. IMHO, set your minimum sights on a three-month period.
Third, two things will be critical for having the best chance of making it through:
- The proper mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt.
- Having a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: start cultivating your community ties and building alliances with neighbors (note: don’t babble about the Jab or globalists or depopulation, or start pointing political fingers when doing this)… and remember, the first rule of PREP CLUB is that there is no prep club.
Fourth, as you read here, note that I present an aggregation of articles that I think are interesting, but I do not have time to vet them. Caveat emptor.
Note: I’d wanted to be at the Grok meetup, but one of my kids is sick with the flu. For the past few days, walking around in stores, etc., it seemed like every third kid or so was coughing, sneezing, etc. Guess it landed in our household. Not worth my salt as a dad if I left home. I do intend to be at the next one, whenever & wherever it is…
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I was rereading my essay Rome, er, America and saw that I had this quote at the top. True.
“The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization is knowing that you are.”
– Robert Heinlein
Related:
I wish the resemblance weren’t so close…
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New Feature – main URLs of various prepper sites, to grow as I find new ones. Most have daily articles. Please recommend others in the comments.
Ask a Prepper, how to prepare, survive and thrive, latest news
The Organic Prepper Home – The Organic Prepper
SurvivalBlog.com – The Daily Web Log for Prepared Individuals Living in Uncertain Times.
And two aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
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Short of years of preparation and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything. But even some preparations, ideally at least 90 days of food, water / water purification, etc., puts you head and shoulders in front of the vast majority of the sheeple who will be in jaw-gaping astonishment when the SHTF. The only relevant questions are:
- When does it start?
- How bad will it get?
- How long will it last?
- What will the aftermath look like?
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As I watch open calls from the Left to become violent – whether over abortion or other things – let me remind them:
I can think of a few people for my “Personal Accountability List”…
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Top of the fold:
Victory Day in the Motherland – The Burning Platform
Pushing-pushing-pushing Russia into a corner.
A U.S. Policy Of ‘Bleeding Russia’ In Ukraine Is Reckless In The Extreme (thefederalist.com)
Get ready. In my mind related:
UKRAINE Shuts Off Europe’s Gas
This will not, I don’t think, damage Russia who has other potential customers. It will damage Europe. And lastly:
The Polish Prime Minister called for the eradication of the “Russian world” as a “cancer”
Demolition of monument to Soldiers of the Soviet Army allowed – AzeriTimes
All these things will put the vast majority of Russians even more on the defensive and hostile to everyone else. Setting one people against another. Divide and conquer while the Globalists position themselves. Well… that and to eliminate the chance that their Covid fraud would become broadly understood.
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Frozen: How Canada’s Banks Betrayed their Customers During the Emergencies Act | C2C Journal
A good friend of mine asked their bank whether they would, if ordered to by fedgov, freeze their account. The answer was YES, not surprisingly. Thus they are withdrawing massive amounts of their money. Remember, a Canadian single mother had her accounts frozen over a $50 donation; Single Mother’s Bank Account Frozen Over $50 Donation to Freedom Truckers ⋆ Things have gone sideways in Canada. ⋆ Flag And Cross.
I, too, anticipate a painful conversation with my accountant. When I put out a feeler about cashing out my entire investment portfolio, he said that my cashing out on my investments would result in the severing of our decades-long relationship. Understand that this man was my parents’ accountant before mine, and he has been a solid resource and good person in my life. But his absolute, IMHO willful, blindness to anything outside his normalcy window means that were I to accede to his directives and leave my money in the system, it would mean it could be frozen too if President Potato issues directives to target the finances of his political enemies no matter how small. Or just outright seized as some Globalist decided I have too much beyond my “fair share”…
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Presented, quick hit style, are some links. Print them out and start a binder – if the SHTF badly enough you won’t be able to retrieve these off the net or, possibly, even off your computer (I remember one Y2K event I went to – someone was selling survival info on CDs… yeah, useful when the power’s out!):
10 Firearm Lessons Learned from an Animal Attack – The Organic Prepper
How To Preserve Foods In Honey – Ask a Prepper
50 Prepping Items You Can Buy From The Thrift Shop – Ask a Prepper
What Do You Do If A Venomous Snake Bites You? – The Organic Prepper
Grow Your Own Mushrooms – Mother Earth News
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists:
Joe Biden Is Threatening Our Freedom of Movement | RealClearEnergy
If you cannot move freely you can be herded.
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Shortages (broadly):
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Another reason for the supply chain crunch: daft personnel policies
More on supply chain:
Motorists beware: a diesel shortage may lead to a gasoline shortage, too
No diesel for trucks means no deliveries to retail stores. Gasoline. Food. No heating oil or propane deliveries. And so on.
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Shortages of cooking oil and flour in Europe reported. Canada too:
FOOD CRISIS: Canada Faces Cooking Oil Shortage
Buy it now. Could be a good trade item for later, assuming things don’t descend into true Mad Max territory.
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More fuel for a borderless world and the Great Replacement.
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Inflation (broadly):
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Italy: Food Prices Set to Rise 12.7% April-May
Report: Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware Gas Prices Hit ‘All Time Highs’
Inflation Rises, Not Falls In April As Predicted…
BREAKING: US Producer Price Index – A Measurement of Inflation – Reaches 11% in April
Heating Oil Costs Are Rippling across My Life and Family – Granite Grok
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The Grid & Energy In General:
Without diesel fuel, coal trains won’t move. That’s 10% of America’s electric generation. So add increased demand from AC and electric vehicles with reduced supply. Cue up the Supply & Demand curve. And then watch your wallet…
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US Social Stability (broad catch-all):
REPORT: JUSTICE ALITO AND HIS FAMILY FORCED TO MOVE TO A SECURE LOCATION
Regardless of which side of the abortion debate you’re on, IMHO this is unacceptable. Related:
Related to the crumbling of the foundations of society:
As I understand it, in multiple cities across the country chain stores are pulling out as they suffer losses that are economically unsustainable. Related:
California smash and grab burglars use sledgehammers in Beverly Hills jewelry theft (nypost.com)
And now consider this:
I am sure that stuff like this happened for decades. Disgusting, but not unheard of. No, what’s indicative of a breakdown of morality in our general society is that the man videoed it. Also remember that people videoing themselves during commissions of crimes, even brutal crimes, is now commonplace. We used to have people who did bad things but now we have people who do bad things and have no problems recording themselves, or even posting those deeds publicly.
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Pennies, pounds, and politicians
A society that cannot fix small things cannot fix large things.
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If We Cannot Secure Voting, We Will Perish – American Thinker
TINVOWOOT. More:
What happens? Nothing good. Related:
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The patterns are there. People are pointing them out.
We’re in a bubble that is about to burst.
Now is the time to clear your plate of debt and batten down the hatches.
Meanwhile, to keep my Covidian wife happy and distracted, I’m taking out a loan to redo the kitchen. I find the irony painful: she grew up in the USSR. She lived through its break-up. And yet she – to a near-pathological panicked denial – will not see what’s happening. I don’t want to do this, but this will keep her thinking about the project, not French-kissing her Covidian BFF’s ass and thinking about Jabbing the kids.
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Sweden Would Strengthen The NATO Alliance
Remember what I’ve been saying again and again and again? Every nation taking every “logical” next step until the every nation is bound up – whether internally or externally – by commitments that make the shooting inevitable?
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Germany’s Top Banking Chief Warns of Bankruptcy Tsunami Amid Stagflation Threats
So many potential failure points around the world. Related:
Cyberattack knocks out Russian video platform Rutube – Insider Paper
And going the other way:
Maybe real. Maybe false flag. But regardless, it’s cranking up.
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Gardening, animals, etc.:
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Home Dairy Cow: My Newbie Experience Buying a Milk Cow (survivalblog.com)
I do not have nearly enough room to do this. Alas.
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Planning Your Garden? Read This First. – The Organic Prepper
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Tech security:
Biden Disinformation Czar Demands Power to Edit Other People’s Tweets
Seven Hairy Hells. On the new internet Fascism:
Only Internet Fascism Can Save Democracy – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish articles
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Self-defense:
Court slaps down California ban on selling semiautomatic rifles to young adults – TheBlaze
A sliver of good news.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Some well-done work. Having said that, some of these look far more intense than the average Joe-sixpack work. And a fly in the ointment – there is a company in NH, and doubtless others elsewhere, that make man-portable equipment that can scan home walls for concealed compartments, firearms, etc. Now, this presupposes that there is sufficient manpower and their having time to do such an extended search of homes.
Additionally, I remember applying for a job here years ago, and was told they have van-based scanners that can scan pedestrians without their knowledge, consent, or a warrant. I remember asking “How is that legal”? and being assured it was. How? I mean, it’s one thing to have event or location security where people know they’ll be searched, but just being able to scan people walking on the street??? I would not doubt they have man-portable scanners for homes as well.
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
I am becoming more and more terrified. Not at any of the above; that’s “baked in” to my mentality already. Anything I read now is just minor tweaking of where I’m at mentally.
No, I’m becoming more and more terrified of conversations that I have with people who say MEH to everything. MEH to the ever-clearer dangers of the Jab, MEH to inflation and/or recession, MEH to the possibility of WWIII, MEH to the clear and present threat of a nascent “Ministry of Truth”, MEH to the possibility of food shortages, MEH to the threat of an EMP or calamitous cyber-attack on power and other infrastructure, MEH to the WEF / WHO takeover of America (or any other country), MEH to the implications of open borders with the flood of illegals coming in, and broadly MEH to anything that might disturb their view that the world is calm. Brings to mind this guy:
But that’s not the point. Reality is about dealing with what IS. Survival is about recognizing dangers, and then taking action: working to ameliorate those dangers or at least have plans in place for if those dangers materialize. That the vast majority of people are intentionally and willfully blind to this is pathological level DENIAL. When reality hits they will not just be unprepared physically, but fragile mentally… and will snap. And in snapping will lash out at, and snitch on, anyone who has been more aware and putting things away and prepping – for they will be furious. Not, of course, furious at the situation or those who deliberately engineered it. Furious at you for your having had more foresight, more insight… white-hot fusion-level furious at having to admit that you were right and they were wrong – for having to consciously admit this will drive them to question what else you were right about, and they wrong. Assuming the ability (electricity & internet) still exist, they will look, and will not like what they find… and they will be even more furious at you for having seen what they did not on so many things.
Because of that fury at said revelation, they will take that fury out on you. They will also be furious at you for possibly rebuffing their “I’ll just come to your house” mentality when they do, as though they are entitled to partake in what you have simply because they present themselves. What did I say in a prior Survival Sunday?
So I’ve spent countless thousands of dollars buying food and myriad other things, putting an enormous amount of thought into what I need for myself and my family to get us through what I think are dire times just ahead… and you think you can just drive up to my house and say “TA DA I’m here, feed me and my fam”? And I’ll just do it? And when the second family shows up, and the third, and the fourth? All expecting that I’ll just open the locks and provide from my own preps?
Let alone put my life on the line to protect them? For I know several people who have said “I’ll just come to your house” and when I ask if they’ll pick up a gun and defend the house, it’s “Oh, no, I could never shoot another person”. That IMHO is the definition of Useless Eater.
Ultimately, if “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” then IMHO “Right behind a woman scorned is one whose smug sense of mental, emotional, educational, and cognitive superiority has been shattered by the realization that someone they disdained & ridiculed was more insightful than they”.
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