First, I am merely an “enlightened amateur”. Please vet & check on your own. Caveat emptor. 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.
And please follow both me, Nitzakhon, on Gab… as well as my blog host Granite Grok and also on Telegram Tommy Robinson Official plus his Urban Scoop site. And don’t forget my posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well.
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Nitzakhon note: I had every good intention of splitting this up into a twice-a-week feature. But not the time. Work has exploded – good, because I hate sitting idle – but it costs me time here.
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Top of the fold:
WARNING from a Farmer~Get READY!
We can try to educate other people but that time would be wasted; spend your time wisely with people who are rebuilders. If someone has questions about the future, I will give them my beliefs, thoughts and facts. Succinctly. I will not proselytize to the walking dead.
I understand how that sounds. I know many people who are still trying to help people survive the future. They believe their efforts are important and that there is time to prepare. I pray they are correct. For me, I believe we are in WWIII, food and ammunition stocks should be in place and it is time to “get right with God”. Then again, it is always time to get right with God and walk a righteous path.
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Don Lemon: Republicans Must Be Treated As Danger To Society – The Lid (lidblog.com)
Understand something to your core: the Left views you as an enemy. They view you as a lethal threat to their planned Socialistopia. They openly state it, time and time and time again – that they want you banished, or in camps, or just dead. Channeling the famous Shoah (Holocaust) survivor, Elie Wiesel:
When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.
And don’t forget Larry Grathwohl’s warning (embedded quote, bolding added):
I asked, well, what is going to happen to those people that we can’t reeducate that are diehard capitalists and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further they estimated that they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers. And when I say eliminate I mean kill – 25 million people.
I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people most of which have graduate degrees from Columbia and other well known educational centers and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people and they were dead serious.”
Related; Enemy Action? – Area Ocho (link in original):
According to the NY medical examiner, Ivana Trump died from trauma to the chest. They say it was an accident. She was found at the foot of the stairs in her New York residence. No other details are available.
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Democrats hate Donald Trump and have been calling for the killing of Republicans.
And another link, related:
Canada’s ‘expert’ panel recommends the mentally ill be candidates for euthanasia – American Thinker
To the Left, as in the former USSR, anyone not fully on board with Socialism is “mentally ill”… And more:
Battle For The Republic Video/Speech (bolding added):
Whenever Democrat politicians and their token opposition who call themselves Republicans create unconstitutional laws and push us ever further into the abyss of tyranny under the guise of “Democracy,” THEY are NOT “LARPing.” They are relishing the power to destroy our lives at their whim.
These groups are NOT LARPers. They are Warriors dedicated to the destruction of all that is good in a vain effort to establish a hell on earth they call Utopia. These people do not play our games. Their bloodlust is not satisfied with our compromises. They despise our God-given Rights and are hell-bent on their eradication. They do not hesitate to use every means at their disposal because a Warrior’s only goal is to WIN. Our decency and winsomeness and commitment to playing by nonexistent rules are fuel to their demonic fire.
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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.
Survival World – Everything You Need To Know to Survive
And two aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
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Specific, one-up articles:
The Gritty Details of How Lebanon’s Civil War Unfolded: Interview 2 (theorganicprepper.com)
I thought this was particularly noteworthy (link in the original, bolding added):
This is how it happened, yes. It happened then. Once confidence is lost, people retreat. This has cascading effects on everything else. It’s a change of behavior which is something to be expected, right?
Once societies fall into a low-confidence, low-trust situation, rebuilding that becomes enormously difficult. That, long-term, will be one of the prime challenges in the aftermath.
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How To Pickle Watermelon Rind The Amish Way – Ask a Prepper
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Find Out What Areas Would Be Targeted by FEMA When SHTF (they’ll take your supplies) – Ask a Prepper
The fundamental lesson? What’s the first rule of Prep Club? There is no Prep Club.
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Weird Survival Items That Might Save Your Life – Ask a Prepper
Necessity will, indeed, become the mother of invention.
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How to Bake Bread Off-Grid – The Organic Prepper
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Why Country Bumpkins Will Win the Day – Intellectual Takeout
Could I survive a true SHTF, grid-down scenario? Probably not. But I’d have a damn-sight better chance than – say – most of my relatives who have never known the countryside except as a place to visit for a “quaint weekend”. The same for my wife’s social circle. The same for the vast majority of my former coworkers at, well, all of my former employers. MY friends? Probably could. Unfortunately most of them are scattered hither and yon.
Which reminds me, I need to set up a reward system for the kids to push them to learn Morse Code. That, and basic knots. I’m already teaching them the edible plants I know.
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When Venezuela Starved, Fruit Helped Keep Us Alive. (theorganicprepper.com)
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8 Deadly Mistakes When Storing Water For SHTF – Ask a Prepper
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Words mean things. When the meanings of words cannot be relied on to be stable, communications become very difficult. Orwell understood this, and also understood – in Newspeak – that when you constrain language, you constrain thought.
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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?
On “when does it start”? MHO? Soon. Within the year.
Lessons from Candle Smoke – Urban Scoop
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Depopulation, Transhumanism and Rediscovering Humanity (With Max Igan) (bitchute.com)
Must watch (about 24 minutes). Cities are three days away from starvation. And more. Repeating my two essays on this. And then a video embedded in the second one.
The 7.3 Billion Dollar, er, Person Question – Liberty’s Torch (libertystorch.info)
Proverbs 16:18… and What’s Coming? – Granite Grok
Harkening back to my last essay, I’ve shown people this video from my phone. I’ve given them the link to the conference where this was said. You’d think that someone would – if only to prove me wrong – go look. Yet not one person to whom I’ve shown this has, when I asked a follow-up a week-plus later, gone to investigate. Screeeeech! Someone shows you a video of a person seemingly discussing genocide on a scale that would permanently stain humanity and eclipse any prior event in history and you can’t be bothered to even look? You’ve lost your survival instinct!
Civilizational Collapse and Biology (Part 2) – Urban Scoop
There is such a deep trust in government and the goodness of people within it. People are going to die by the billions wondering what happened. Sowell nails it:
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
– Rudyard Kipling
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Foraging: Books and one-up articles
No specific articles seen this week, but… here’s a classic one:
52 Plants In The Wild You Can Eat – Ask a Prepper
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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
One of the things, Hashem willing, that I plan to do next spring… assuming we’re still here next spring (!)… is to start planting edibles that are not recognizable as edibles by most. People see a vegetable garden, that’s recognizable. People see a kind-of run down yard that seems overgrown with random plants? Not so much.
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Deep State / Coming Tyranny / WEF / Globalists (broad):
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And back to my lament. Point out these dangers and it’s “Oh come on, it won’t be that bad”! Related:
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Biden Transport Secretary AGAIN Says “PAIN” Of High Gas Prices Is A Benefit – Summit News
Remember their philosophy. They are the enlightened, the nobility, the elite… and you need to be “nudged” to rightthink.
The World Economic Forum’s Agricultural Revolution – The American Conservative
These people are on a mission. They’re MISSIONARIES. You do not matter to them in the slightest. More on the economy:
The ONLY 3 Economic Charts to Follow – SHENANDOAH (johngaltfla.com)
Animal’s Daily Fiscal Disaster News | Animal Magnetism (frombearcreek.com)
Not just in America. The entire world is so deep in the debt tank that even with Heliox we’re going to start suffocating soon.
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MHO, hanged for treason.
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In the book “The Once and Future King” about King Arthur, the wizard Merlin rails about people being “sports mad” about tournaments and tournaments and tournaments. I see people, now, being Tech Mad. So enamored with Big Tech and social media and the latest gadgets that they don’t see what the obsession is costing them:
Let alone the take-off of Arthur C. Clark’s Third Law:
Any technology, no matter how advanced, is indistinguishable from a brick when the power is out.
Speaking of the power being out:
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Whaaaaaat?
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So why have an advisory panel at all?
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Shortages (broadly):
Impossible-level fuel prices will mean more than just FOOD shortages. Everything is transported by fuel. The gas you put in your car, the goods you buy anywhere. The medical supplies at the clinics and hospitals.
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IT’s All About Fuel Pass Gov lk Registration 2022 (moneymaketnews.com)
Test-bed.
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“The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants’ worst enemies.”
Claire Wolfe
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Banning Modern Agriculture and High Crop Yields? – Watts Up With That?
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Enemedia:
NY Times Notes Four Ways Government Can Force You To Comply With Climate Cult
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Globalists planned the impending “food armageddon” YEARS ago – DC Clothesline
I say this over and over. They’ve been planning this for over a century. Related:
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I woooonder how this is happening…
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Inflation (broadly):
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Producer price index June 2022: Gain 11.3% on surge in energy costs (cnbc.com)
And energy affects everything else. Related:
Biden Transport Secretary AGAIN Says “PAIN” Of High Gas Prices Is A Benefit – Summit News
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US Stability (broad catch-all):
Impossibly stupid doesn’t BEGIN to cover this.
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Yeah. Let me know how that works for you.
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Audio: S.C. State Rep. Caught Planning Election Fraud Scheme – The New American
Remember, the Left has no honor. Their mantra is power to rule you. BAMN.
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Deborah Birx’s “Silent Invasion”: a Guide to Destroying America From Within (substack.com)
The very definition of DOMESTIC ENEMY. Speaking of domestic enemies and impeachment possibilities:
Overwhelming Evidence: Biden Lied, Met With Hunter’s Business Partner – PJ Media
If the GOP gets the House, regardless of the possibility of success if they don’t vote to impeach and hold a trial, they’re worthless.
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Statistics that point to something very bad happening. But only since 2021. What could possibly have happened?
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“Under Biden, there’s been 3.25M unlawful migrant crossings at the US southern border. As a state, that would rank as the 31st largest state by population, ahead of Iowa & behind Utah. At the current pace, we can expect +9M illegal migrants during Biden’s term.”
–Economist Mark J. Perry.
9+ million is 3% of the population of the US. With, doubtless, every female of child-bearing age spread-legged at every opportunity to get pregnant and squirt out an anchor baby. And then they’re here forever. And voting “D” forever.
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Collapse of the Rule of Law. Related:
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World Stability (broad catch-all):
Western Companies Face ‘Existential Crisis’ As Fears Grow Of Chinese Invasion Of Taiwan
I’ve said it before: if China does not make a go for Taiwan soon, with President Potato in the White House, I’ll be shocked. The Chinese government needs a good distraction from the widespread SADS happening in China, as well as – from things I posted & commented on in the last Survival Sunday – China’s economy is far shakier than everyone thinks. That plus Chinese people are seeing their assets in banks confiscated too. So they need a good distraction. More:
China’s Debt Bomb Looks Ready to Explode
Related, at least to me:
Bayou Renaissance Man: “Money talks, bull**** walks”
About the US, but IMHO not limited to the US. And more still:
oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith: The Only Real Solution Is Default
As I’ve said, if we strip-mined the planet down to the MoHo, there’s not enough wealth to pay off this debt.
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Herbert Stein
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It’s manipulation all the way down!
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They came to conquer. Speaking of:
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North Korea Tests New Hypersonic Ballistic Missile
Ruh roh. Mach 10?
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Fun videos, but with a serious point too. Most people consider themselves “well informed”… and are anything but. When things go south, they’ll be utterly taken by surprise. From the same site:
The “deafening media silence” about global protests
Video from the above post:
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Sleep tight. Related:
Don Surber: Taliban may get nukes thanks to Biden
And soldiers in Europe (and doubtless America) ready to help:
Germany: Muslim airport employees give ISIS one-finger salute on airport runway (jihadwatch.org)
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This may make US borrowing much, much more expensive
Economic death spiral, and worse.
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Specific to energy:
Gazprom Declares Force Majeure, Will Halt Gas Flows to Germany Indefinitely
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Gardening, animals, etc.:
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Links on old-time food storage (permanent feature):
Thanks to the Canning and Preserving group on Gab, I now have these links:
Preserving foods by drying | How to dry foods safely (uada.edu)
USDA-Complete-Guide-to-Home-Canning-2015-revision.pdf (healthycanning.com)
Canning | SDSU Extension (sdstate.edu)
Food Preservation– Canning | Consumer Food Safety | Washington State University (wsu.edu)
Canning Timer & Checklist App | OSU Extension Catalog | Oregon State University
National Center for Home Food Preservation (uga.edu)
Canning Recipes | Ball® Mason Jars (ballmasonjars.com)
If you see others, tell me in the comments.
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Books (also permanent):
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking & Curing
Salumi: The Craft of Italian Dry Curing
A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game
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Big Tech in general:
How Artificial Intelligence Brings the End of the World – American Thinker
What will happen when s*x robots become truly ambulatory? When contact with them is more rewarding, pleasure-wise? When they’re compliant, and don’t talk back, etc.? Will we soon have a Stepford Wives scenario? Or will it be a Terminator or Matrix scenario where it ends up being a war between humans and AI? Or Stepford Wives who, after lulling you in, then kill you? Or, or, or?
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An early look at the future of war. pic.twitter.com/sHtv0gwdIw
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 20, 2022
Skynet is smiling.
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Self-defense & Hunting:
What’s she drinking? Send a few cases to the GOP HQ. So sad that those who were born here take so many things for granted. As I wrote in Just Give Me Yavneh, so many say – like a mantra – “Oh that’s just not possible”!
They are, as I coined, “Twenty-Niners” (bolding and link in the original):
As the late Walter Williams wrote in a column:
No German who died before 1930 would have believed the Holocaust possible.
Hence my term, “Twenty-Niners”. People who cannot grasp that anything that could radically change the situation in which they live are actual possibilities, and completely dismiss concerns that others present even when backed by evidence.
Speaking of, more lamenting over people who refuse to even consider the possibility they might be mistaken.
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On yeeting dudes at a distance
I just took the older kid to the range – now that it’s summer – and at 20 feet they did quite well with a rifle. Me and my carry gun at 25 feet? Not so much. Got to get back there, get some one-on-one lessons, and then when I get better sign up for more realistic training too.
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The importance of remembering history: They have been lying for decades.
They want all of them.
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Catch-all miscellaneous:
Michelle Obama’s Changing Sexual Identity – American Thinker
For me, the issue is not whether “Michelle” is trans; I believe he is but absent a confirmable, chain-of-evidence DNA test or something similar, we’ll never truly know IMHO. The same for Barakus’ faith:
I am a Jew. For over two decades I was an atheist. Never, in my life, have I ever said “My Christian faith” or “My Muslim faith” or anything like that. Not once. Not. F*cking. Once.
Now, if Barackus is a Muslim, that’s his right to be. But – and let me be clear – the two issues are related insofar that it’s the deception and concealment of these things that matters. But deception is all the Left has to offer. If, as the late Maha-Rushie once said, if the Left were open and honest they’d never win again. They have to pretend to be something they’re not to have any electoral viability – deception and vote fraud is how they win. And speaking of deception, from the state of my birth; The Sophisticated Deception of Massachusetts – American Thinker.
The Left has no honor. And one does not engage with, or prevail over, a dishonorable foe by fighting back under Marquis of Queensbury Rules.
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Wrap-up commentary if I am moved to do so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZKIyJeHlhU
Back when I lived in Ohio I was still a comics fan, and one day I noticed a title: “Bruce Wayne: Agent of Shield”. WTF? I didn’t pay close enough attention to notice it was part of a series of Marvel-DC crossovers; for a while in this miniseries DC and Marvel characters were smushed together.
In that series Clark Kent pens an essay asking about all the weird new villains and heroes (from Marvel) now being seen in the DC universe. And he asks, pointedly, perhaps in fighting these battles we risk not seeing the greater war we’re losing. As we worry about what we have – and I have a lot, children, a nice house, etc. – what are we losing?
Our freedoms.
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HT to Small Dead Animals (this post, bolding added):
Misha Petrov is a young lady in America who I sense was born in Russia or nearby. She has broken free of the insane group think all around her and not (sic) publishes videos about her new found enlightenment.
While watching this video, you might think, “Proof positive that the American Education System is broken.” I submit to you that it is the way it is very much by design, not by accident.
Now, listen to the absolute arrogance of that first kid in particular. No room at all for the possibility they might be wrong. EGO. VANITY.
Being philosophical here. It’s my belief that each person has 1-2 that are dominant and truly affect their character all the time. There are then a couple that are medium-level. And the rest are the “trivial” a la Pareto. I’d like to think I know myself well enough to know how I am affected by each of the above.
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Palate cleanser:
Even animals are sick of this pronoun sh*t! 😊
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