First, remember that 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.
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Shameless self-promotion: My latest essay at Urban Scoop:
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 1)
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I WISH!!!!
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Understand that 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?
How bad? Consider this:
SELCO: When Our SHTF Started, We Thought it Was Just a Temporary Disruption Too
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Top of the fold:
How to Hunt Deer [Beginner’s Guide] (wildedible.com)
Just remember – if (when!) the fit hits the shan, every yahoo will be out thinking they’re going to bag a deer. Untrained, incautious, and with a hungry family to feed they may bag you or another human instead. Also, with everyone-and-their-brothers-sisters-and-cousins in the woods hunting, the deer – and turkey, and goose, and whatever-else – populations will take a rapid beatdown. (A friend said that over-hunting actually drove turkeys to extinction in their state and they had to be reintroduced.) Same for fishing.
(Cartoon by Gary Larson of The Far Side)
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‘Dr. Doom’ Warns Of The Gathering Global Stagflationary Storm
“There Is No Place Left To Hide”: Mike Wilson Says The Bear Market Is About To Turn Grisly
US Dollar Defaults On Petro Dollar And RU Banking Obligations
Will China Pop The Global Everything Bubble? (Spoiler Alert: Yes) | ZeroHedge
That a global economic crash is coming cannot be disputed. As I ask above, “How bad will it get”? and “How long will it last”? Remember what my cartoon says:
The deliberate goal is a population crushed by debt, hunger, fear, and uncertainty – for then they will be willing to surrender anything – anything! – to the Globalists in exchange for food and a semblance of security.
Understand, the world is a pile of interlinked debt so massive that we could strip-mine the planet down to the MoHo and there would not be enough wealth generated to pay off the fiat-currency debt. More (italics replaced by underlining, bolding added):
Be Your Own Central Bank – Here’s What I Mean… (modernsurvivalblog.com)
They (the FED, Federal Reserve, .gov, central banks from around the word) cannot, and will not stop spending more, and printing more (lots more) money (actually, i should say ‘currency’). The so called Central Banks are, and have been for a long time, propping up the system. Period. The moment it stops doing this, it all collapses.
The moment real austerity begins, the system fails. Interest rates must stay near zero, or, very low. On the other hand, the moment it creeps up, the cost of servicing the massive debt becomes untenable and it all crashes. At least that’s how I see it. The world debt today is somewhere around 226 Trillion dollars. Unfathomable.
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists:
And if the grid is down from the “inevitable” cyber-attack? Or your social credit score isn’t what TPTB think it should be – because you’re not obeying hard enough? There’s a reason they want to push people into EVs:
The Next Step For Solving ‘Climate Change’ Is Forcing People Into EVs
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WAKE UP and Smell the Burning of Our Constitution (substack.com)
According to changes made to U.S. regulations that were published one day before Donald Trump was inaugurated (January 19, 2017), the definition of a “Public Health Emergency” in the United States now includes the declaration of a PHEIC by the WHO.
I find the timing… worrying. Almost as though there is something planned from before Trump. “Almost”.
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UBCO asks: Should freedoms be restricted to preserve the planet?
They will rationalize your total enslavement to (cue dramatic reverb) saaaaaave the plaaaaaanet.
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NEW Controlled Food System Is Now In Place And They Will Stop At Nothing To Accelerate Their Control
Concentrated piles-of-humanity megacities with indoor-grown hydroponic plants that have been genetically engineered to be vax-carriers and lab-grown frankenfood meat. And bugs. Don’t forget the bugs.
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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!):
The 30 Cents Survival Food That You Should Hoard – Ask a Prepper
You Need to Be Thinking NOW About Bartering – The Organic Prepper
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Things You Should Never Say To A Prepper – Ask a Prepper
I especially love the “I’ll just come to your house” one.
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?
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DIY Tin Oil Lamp In Case Of A Power Outage – Ask a Prepper
Another one, especially for cooking, is to take an empty can, roll corrugated cardboard until it fills the can, and then fill it with oil or hot wax for a candle. Apparently – and I haven’t tested it – it can generate enough heat for cooking.
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What to Include in an Off-Grid Emergency Shelter
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Shortages (broadly):
UK’s Largest Supermarket Begins Rationing Cooking Oil Amid Supply Disruption | ZeroHedge
I can see this being a good trade item. And adding one to your shopping list every week or so, or even two, won’t break the bank. More:
Goya Foods CEO Warns We’re on the Precipice of a Global Food Crisis
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Choose: Climate Ideology or Food
And thus, they’ll destroy the food industry to placate the (imaginary) climate deities.
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More reader questions answered about emergency food reserves
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Inflation (broadly):
The Inflation Draining Your Wallet Is A Whole Lot Steeper Than 8 Percent (thefederalist.com)
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Not inflation per se. But between inflation and the Left’s insane desire to tax us into oblivion, more and more and more people will be squeezed into outright and abject poverty. Remember the goal – a crushed population desperate to feed itself, terrified of crime, dependent on The State, and ready for the “benevolent hand” of Socialism. Related:
IMF Director Admits “We Printed too Much Money” – Miami Standard
This is, IMHO, getting ahead of it to say “Hey, we DID say we made a mistake”. Even as the effects of the deliberate action hurts the people.
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Psychopath Daniel Andrews Plans To STARVE Victorians
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The Grid & Energy In General:
A Double Solar Flare Just Triggered Radio Blackouts Over Asia And Australia
The threat to the grid does not need to be man-made. One good coronal mass ejection like the Carrington Event and we’re done just as well.
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Biden Regime Cracks Down Harder on Oil Production
Related:
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US Social Stability (broad catch-all):
How Bad Will the Biden Recession Be? – PJ Media
I read the statements that things won’t be that bad, and I think to myself “You can line up all the economists in the world and you won’t reach a conclusion”. Related:
Futures Slide As Amazon, Apple Slump; Nasdaq Set For Worst Month Since Nov 2008
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Two more explosions and fires in Russia….Marching to WW3…Better get ready for it.
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How Yen’s plummet impacts US – TheBlaze
An interlaced house of debt cards… globally. This will not end well. Related:
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Gardening, etc.:
Hydroponics: How To Grow Food With A Kratky Jar (theorganicprepper.com)
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Tech security:
Google Rolls Out Feature That Corrects You With Woke ‘Inclusive’ Language; Report | ZeroHedge
If they’re correcting you, they’re scanning the content you have in your emails. Do not doubt that wrongthink is being reported.
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Yet another example of Big Tech trying to manipulate US politics?
Not specifically security, but understand… whether you are a sender or a receiver, if you use gma!l or y00h00, or any other Big Tech “free” email, you’re running the risk of not getting emails people send you, and running the risk the emails you send them don’t get through either.
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11 Hacker Tips To Keep Your Phone From Tracking You – Ask a Prepper
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Self-defense:
James Madison’s Supreme Court appointee, Justice Joseph Story, noted:
“The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against usurpation and arbitrary power of the rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.”
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It must be getting close to Midterms: Microstamping Season is once again upon us.
Good info about the uselessness of this.
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An Evolving Lie in American Media
Of course the enemedia lies about this. (And about everything else too.)
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Some defensive shooting thoughts to communicate to family:
I’ve told my kids repeatedly that if we’re in the car and I say GET DOWN GET SMALL it means for them to get into the footwells in front of their seats, ass to the outside… because being shot in the butt is better than being shot in the head. I’ve also told them that if they’re at school and there’s an active shooter, if they can get out – doubtful but hopeful – RUN and ZIG ZAG. A person in the school intent on mass slaughter will likely ignore one kid running when there are plenty of targets easily at hand.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Communications and Disaster Planning for Preppers – Survivalist Prepper
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The masquerade of “free and fair elections” is crumbling. If – as I predicted here – in the 2022 midterms the Dems are not soundly routed, then we’ll know for sure: TINVOWOOT.
Then what?
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
For months if not years I have commented here, and in multiple places elsewhere, that WWI started with the “seed crystal” of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. From there, every country took what seemed – in the context of what was known at the time – to be the “next logical step”. This continued until every single country was boxed in by commitments both internal and external… and then the whole thing started.
I see that same trend with respect to Ukraine and Russia and NATO. Not to mention Taiwan vs. China. Iran vs. Israel (and, hopefully, the Arabs who – while also Muslims – have a multiple-millennia racial hatred for the Persians that precedes Islam). And India vs. Pakistan. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Consider these:
Russia Accuses Nato Of ‘Proxy War’ In Ukraine As US Hosts Crucial Defence Summit
Ukraine shot down Russian plane with help from US intel: Report | Washington Examiner
In Major Reversal After Warning Of Nuclear War, Germany Approves Tanks For Ukraine | ZeroHedge
Every nation taking “perfectly logical” steps that, in context of what’s known, will trigger “perfectly logical” responses… and ultimately lead to war. A world war.
And IMHO this is the deliberate goal of the Globalists who have their years-long bolt holes stocked and ready. When they emerge they intend to rule the ashes, and the much-diminished human population.
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