First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. If nothing else, consider these to be priming the pump for your own investigations.
Second, I fear spicy time is very close, 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:
- Mentality: first and foremost in survival is having a flexible mentality and cultivating the ability to adapt. Vanity has no place in survival.
- Develop a meatspace network of people that are likeminded: cultivate your community ties and build 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, if you leave a comment on any of the links / sites below, please be sure to specifically mention that you got there through “Survival Sunday at granitegrok.com” – hopefully that prompts their site admins to be interested in looking here.
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Prepper Site URLS:
Most have daily articles; revisit daily. 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 and untold wealth, you cannot possibly be fully prepared for everything (I have to keep reminding myself of that). 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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You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Charles A. Beard
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Top of the fold:
Two and 3-year-old kids with seizures is “the new normal” (substack.com)
There are no words in Entish, Elvish, or the tongues of men for this betrayal of our youth.
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To make good decisions one must have accurate-as-possible-yet-timely information. This is delusion on an incredible scale! Delusion, or placating the rubes to not prep until it’s too late? Or, in a perversion of “strong shape” it’s in strong shape to promote world Socialism?
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Foraging: Books and one-up articles
The Survival Tree Every Prepper Should Know – Ask a Prepper
DIY Long Lasting Cattail Pollen Biscuits – Ask a Prepper
Goldenrod or pine pollen would also work, I think. Both are edible. Never denude a place when harvesting though.
10+ Wild Foods You Should Forage For This Summer – Ask a Prepper
Better Than Aspirin: The Plant Every Prepper Needs In Their Cabinet (askaprepper.com)
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Books (permanent feature):
Feasting Free on Wild Edibles (old but good)
The Lost Ways (much more than just foraging)
The Forager’s Guide to Wild Foods
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO EDIBLE WILD PLANTS FOR BEGINNERS
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
Multi-generational debt. You can never climb out. Related:
Trudeau Demolishes Home Ownership For Middle Class, Young Families (capforcanada.com)
Related:
DUTCH FARMS SEIZED TO MAKE WAY FOR MIGRANTS
You have a right to nothing that someone can take away. Private property is one of the cornerstones of freedom.
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From Tomorrow, All New Vehicles in the EU Will Have Surveillance Black Boxes – Summit News
And then it will be kill switches… linked to your social credit score. Related, at least in my mind:
The Tyranny of a Cashless Society (bitchute.com)
Bill Gates Tells Governments to Invest in Technologies for “Payment and ID Systems”
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Dutch Police Fire Live Rounds at Anti-Green Agenda Protesters – Summit News
They’re creating paradise. You think they care if individuals live or die?
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Italy: Software Developed to Detect ‘Non-Vaccinated’ Individuals
Imagine this scenario. You’re a pureblood walking through a store. As you approach people their phones start chiming with a new tone / warning, and everyone looks at their phones to identify the “unclean” person among them. Anyone remember this video?
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I looked for it the other day and it was 404ed. I KNEW I should have PDFed it off. Take note – you see something like this, grab it before it gets disappeared. (Wayback machine has it thought.)
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That damned pesky free speech thing.
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Shortages (broadly):
This quote applies – remember, Californians keep voting them in:
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
L. Mencken
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Are shippers making a fortune out of the supply chain crunch?
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If Food Rationing Can Happen in Germany, It Can Happen HERE – The Organic Prepper
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Inflation (broadly):
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Stats Can Figures Shows Shoppers Paying 20% More For Food Staples
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US Social Stability (broad catch-all):
IMHO. This. Is. Treason. Nothing short of it. As is shipping our strategic reserve oil overseas.
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CW2 discussion. Related in my mind:
The Biggest Temper Tantrum In U.S. History Has Begun (theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
Sooner or later someone’s going to die because of this.
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Reading the signs: November 2022 will see electoral manipulation like never before
TINVOWOOT. Related:
Biden Job Approval Hits New Low – Summit News
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Urban crime and violence is becoming a self-sustaining monster, feeding on itself
When enough police say SCREW IT there will be utter anarchy. Related:
We’ve let the rule of law slip through our fingers
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Biden To Make Deported Illegal Aliens Eligible For Citizenship…
The Great Replacement proceeds apace.
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The Cloward-Piven financial death spiral proceeds apace. More:
DEMOCRATS AGREE TO INCREASE TAXES AND INCREASE SPENDING
A Biden Tax Hike Kicked in That Affects Everything From Soap to Lightbulbs
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Movie on the 2020 Election Set for Release
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Bounties put on conservative SCOTUS justices’ locations. If that doesn’t send a shiver up your spine…
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
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Emergency Rooms Across Canada Are Shutting Down
I was at the ER about a week ago. It took almost six hours to be seen for an initial screening past triage, and I was on a stretcher in the corridor until transferred upstairs. Yes it was busy but it did seem awfully short-staffed in my non-professional opinion.
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Hemorrhagic Fever: An Outbreak of the Marburg Virus Has Begun (noqreport.com)
Man, do I hate being right all the time:
The Next Pandemic – Granite Grok
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Sri Lanka Bankrupt – Winds of Jihad (sheikyermami.com)
Coming soon to a first-world nation near you.
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Specific to energy:
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EU Power Prices Hit All-Time High
EU to Create Emergency Plan for Russian Energy Cut Off
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Image, below, from the link:
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Remember that if it gets bad enough people will be out listening for generators. Because people with generators are more likely to have food stocks. Consider a plan to NOT run your generator all the time.
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Gardening, animals, etc.:
How to Get Started With Kitchen Scrap Gardening – The Organic Prepper
The Accidental Mycologist: Fun and Games With Martha Tents – (theorganicprepper.com)
10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard – The Organic Prepper
Cut-And-Come-Again Gardening Will Boost Your Production – (theorganicprepper.com)
8 Tips for Prepping in Suburbia and the City – The Organic Prepper
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Books on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
To be developed next week. If you see ones you like, tell me in the comments.
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Tech security:
Nothing found this week. But I will note that both Canada and NH had debit card system outages recently. And, to me very interesting, I couldn’t find anything on the net about the NH outage.
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Self-defense:
Tucker: Self-defense is the cornerstone of all liberty
Video at the link. Transcription of the lead-in below:
Tucker: If the criminal who assaults you is a member of a favored group, you don’t have the right to fight back. You may not defend yourself. You must take whatever he gives you because thugs have more rights than you do, you being the person dumb enough to be working at almost midnight in a bodega in Harlem on a Friday. That’s the message and it wasn’t simply Alvin Bragg who was sending it. The tech companies, as always, joined with the government as a unified force to send this message. GoFundMe deleted Jose Alba’s fundraising page from the Internet. Contrast this with how the left’s militia are treated.
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An Open Letter to Women Who Want Gun Control – The Organic Prepper
So much of this is DENIAL. A desire to not have to admit that the picture-perfect world we live in is, in fact, an abberation from what the reality of life on earth has been for most of the time humanity’s been here.
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Discreet Urban Weapons You Never Thought About – The Organic Prepper
A word about knives. A good friend knows a lot about this, and he said that knife fights are – at best – messy affairs.
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Biden Uses Abe Assassination To Push Gun Control – The Lid (lidblog.com)
Anything is an excuse to push gun control. Even in a land where guns are controlled like a liberal’s dream.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
If your goal was to destroy the military, this would be an excellent step.
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The Herbalist’s Bookshelf – The Organic Prepper
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The Top 3 Mistakes I Made BEFORE the SHTF – The Organic Prepper
Lessons learned in Venezuela. My biggest issue is that my USSR-born wife is willfully blind to what’s developing. She insists nothing bad can possibly happen here.
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
Althouse: Gavin Newsom is running for President against Ron DeSantis.
I want to say it was a decade ago, though I’m not confident it was that long, when I engaged an uber-lib in debate on linkedin. She predicted Newsom was being groomed to run for President. Remember, the Left is arguably insane, but they’re shrewd and they plan long-term.
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One other thing:
Corporate Media Insists Eating Insects Is “Really Delicious” | ZeroHedge
I was listening to the Jesse Kelly show the other day and he had on a clip of a deranged loon talking about climate change killing us all. These people TRULY BELIEVE we’re going to die if we don’t take drastic measures now. Population-culling measures now.
The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok
We cannot coexist with people who think we should be culled “for the good of the planet”.
Video from comments here, Poisoning The Food Supply. Note the date on the NYT article at the link.
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