ANNOUNCEMENT
Survival Sunday is now being broken up into two pieces, one today – Sunday – and one on Thursday. This is because these things are becoming so long and unwieldy that it seems to make sense to me to split it into two. Please be patient with me as I work through this but the plan is that:
Sundays: All prep stuff, no world sitrep stuff.
Thursdays: All world sitrep stuff, no prep stuff.
I am hoping this will make sense and work out. Each will, however, have a “Top of the Fold” section wherein I place things that I think are hot-hot-hot and need-to-know-now stuff.
Please let me know in the comments if this is working, but give it a few weeks while I feel this out.
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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. I know this is a long post; I am attempting to put out a lot of information as a resource. Read or skip sections depending on your interests.
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 posts sometimes get cloned on American Reveille as well, which is a good site to check out in general.
FYI, links to my last two Survival Sundays:
Survival Sunday – November 27, 2022
Survival Sunday – November 20, 2022
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Interesting. I remember reading something about this, ages ago, but nice to see an explanation. Especially if, in SHTF times, you have undesired house guests that “insist” on being fed, etc. Musing… I wonder where I could get one.
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Top of the fold:
Damn, hoping it goes hot! A game changer. Sent in by a frequent gearhead.
This would be yuuuuuuuge. And while I’m not downplaying the hope, imagine if this goes through. Every person on the Left would be screaming, and likely rioting, that Trump somehow stole it. Imagine the tantrum over 2016, times a million. If this happens, lock and load. And if it happens, Trump better have damned good security.
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And you REALLY think things will get fixed by 2024? TINVOWOOT. The Dems have been at this for a long, long time.
Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief History – American Thinker
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None so deaf as those who will not hear…
This experience, as related and concluded, echoes so many conversations I have. It’s not possible, or it’s so unlikely I won’t worry about it…
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Related:
How to Make DIY Activated Charcoal for Prepping and Survival (primalsurvivor.net)
How to Make Activated Charcoal (with Pictures) – wikiHow
4 Steps To Make Charcoal At Home (emoffgrid.com) and 8 Steps To Make Activated Charcoal (emoffgrid.com)
How to Make Activated Charcoal: A Prepper’s Guide (geekprepper.com)
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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
Homestead Survival Site – How to Live Off The Grid in Comfort and Style
Urban Survival Site | How to Survive a Disaster in the City
Mind4Survival – Survival and Preparedness
Sustainable Living (sustainablelivingideas.com)
The Classic Survivalist – Surviving in a Modern World
Primal Survivor – Practical and sensible prepping advice (new)
And three aggregate sites listing their top favorite sites & links too:
TOP 50 SURVIVAL & PREPPER BLOGS
Prepper Website – Preparedness • Survival • Alternative News
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Specific, one-up articles:
SURVIVAL HOW TO:DIY FISH TRAP (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)
From the same site:
DEADFALL TRAP BUILDING FROM START TO FINISH (VIDEO) (theclassicsurvivalist.com)
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The First Thing You Should Do If An EMP Strikes – Ask a Prepper
My belief is that any follow up EMP would be a few weeks down the road. That would be because the survivors would be coming out and reactivating things – and then those things would be gotten by the follow-on hit. And if they’re smart and plan ahead, they’d do it a third time in another couple of months.
Oh please, not like they haven’t thought of the above. I’m not giving anything away to actors with EMP capability.
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Read This Before You Store Anything In A 5-Gallon Bucket (askaprepper.com)
Mostly aimed at food storage. On food storage:
What I Wish I Knew Before Building A Root Cellar In My Backyard (askaprepper.com)
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Related to Spicy Time:
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When there is no legal recourse, people will resort to illegal recourse.
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Imagine ten attacks on substations around the country. No electric in winter. No sewer lift stations. No water treatment or pressure. No replacement parts. God works in mysterious ways and we certainly are living under an evil government.
Understand that I am not advocating this.
But if such a thing were to happen if IT kicks off – hypothetically – the US government would have divided attention between preserving the urban centers and fighting any insurgents. Plus if insurgents got into the urban centers, protecting their own precious hides.
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I have to say that looks like an enormous amount of work for one person.
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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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I just started a FORAGING group on Gab. Does anyone know how to open it up for people to join? I’m stumped.
Foraging: One-up articles
None found this week.
Foraging: Permanent sites:
Foraging (practicalselfreliance.com)
Wild Harvests (arcadianabe.blogspot.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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Shortages (broadly):
This will be another excuse to attack beef production.
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Bird flu prompts slaughter of 1.8M chickens in Nebraska (phys.org)
I do not trust this. At all.
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Gardening, animals, food preservation, overall health, etc.:
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44 Sustainable Gardening Tips – The Plant Guide
Background.
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28 Vegetables That Grow in Shade For Gardens Without Full Sun (littleyellowwheelbarrow.com)
I sure as heck don’t have full sun on a lot of my property. My bigger problem is my lawn is built over gravel landfill. Not much topsoil, it’s all acid like crazy from the pine trees… and my wife will not support my turning the back yard into a garden.
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How I Finally Got Rid of Pantry Moths! – Susiej
I think I’ve finally gotten rid of the little SOBs. I haven’t seen one in several weeks.
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25 Crops You Can Grow In Buckets All Year Round – Ask a Prepper
Still requires / takes up indoor space. And requires light.
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Stop shouting!: SELF SUFFICIENCY SUNDAYS: Guerrilla Gardening
Some scary points. From the same site:
Stop shouting!: SHTF Self-Education: Introduction to Pressure Canning
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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)
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Topical 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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Self-defense (broad) & Hunting:
Lawfare against RKBA. Related:
The Remington settlement gave precedent to suing Daniel Defense
I said the holders of Remington who settled the Sandy Hook lawsuit were going to f*ck us over.
They did.
Now every grieving parent will be targeted by the blood dancers to file a lawsuit that is engineered to be a runaround the PLCAA.
Give them an opening a femtometer wide, they’ll pry it open. Speaking of:
FedEx and UPS Help Feds Track Gun Sales, State Attorneys General Say (theepochtimes.com)
They will never ever ever ever EVER stop until they have a federal registry. And:
Banks Are Now Creating Systems To Track Gun Purchases… – Tactical Sh*t (tacticalshit.com)
I only pay cash for guns and ammo. Speaking of, there’s a sweet shotgun I’m saving up for – please go buy my bumper sticker to help me get it.
And the .223 version.
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I’ve heard of this thing called “Mantis X”. Any good?
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The “Crazy, Right-Wing Shooter” Myth | RealClearPolitics
I like Lott. He signed my copy of his book.
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Concluding thoughts if I’m moved to comment:
I’ve been reflecting on the sheeple.
It’s my belief that when SHTF – and I truly believe it will to some degree – they will be livid with us. Not just because we have food and other supplies and won’t shaaaaaare like we were taught in kindergarten. No, they’ll be white-hot at the fact that we saw what was coming and took action, thus they’ll be angry at our perceptiveness and initiative.
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Palate cleansers:
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Please check out my MEMES collections; last one here. Mockery, ridicule, and the wrapping of uncomfortable truths inside humor can penetrate the cognitive shields of normies far more effectively – IMHO – than dry facts and figures.
