The Main Focus; at least, as I see it. The Five Basic Concerns. If you aren't warm & dry, hypothermia can set-in quickly. A cold wind will kill you damn quickly... Need potable water for drinking and cleaning. Supposedly you can live 3 days w/o water... Not like I want to try. Not like I want to be infested with Giardia or other parasites/bacteria either from questionable water. Eating. It's a real morale builder, if the food is hot and nourishing. You need to eat. Finally, you'd best be able to defend yourself as you go about these pursuits. No matter where you are or when you are about your business.
Plenty of ancillary critical areas that need your attention also, like First Aid/Medical, Food Cultivation, Trapping, Food Preparation & Preservation Skills & Tools, Alternative Energy & Power Generation...
The list goes on. Years ago, I identified a couple dozen distinct activities that our family would require to be Self-Sufficient and Self-Reliant. Radio Communications, Reference and Literary Libraries were forgotten in the prior paragraph... It is easy to overlook the real daily-living stuff and get absorbed by what you read on other blogs and in whatever news you follow.
Staying Warm & Dry is really The Biggie. Fire Prevention is a Major concern. Fire is a very effective weapon you must expect any determined enemy to employ should chaos rule. A grease or electrical fire, any accidental occurrence will still kill family members or make you homeless. Keeping the perimeter around wood frame housing free of tinder and flammable landscaping is a big plus if you are concerned about fire... Got a woodstove or other chimney that has never been cleaned? Creosote from burning green wood can ignite. Got lots of seasoned wood? Probably not... You might be sure you have a chimney brush and enough extensions to be sure you're not inadvertently the cause of your house-fire.
Trauma Kit is something most of us who aren't medically trained are likely to overlook. Where there is no doctor, there is unlikely to be EMT service either. A broken limb can be a killer. An accidental gunshot or severe knife injury, likewise. Maybe you live near a doctor or a clinic? If you're really rural, maybe they will remain staffed by volunteer and the doctor available? Worth finding out about NOW, for sure! Can you properly apply a tourniquet? Maybe set a bone, relocate a shoulder, disinfect and stitch a wound? When this stuff happens, it happens fast. Know where your kit is and are you sure it is complete and ready to go? Got the tools, supplies, and antibiotics to make a Best Effort and not lose the patient or their limb to gangrene should they survive their injury?
Lots more to Self-Reliance, aka Survivalism than firearms proficiency and ammunition stacks.
If you are banking on hunting game or foraging for your food needs; you may as well rely on Santa Claus, your expectations are similarly unreal. The food you have on hand will be the only food you have available once the stores go down, are looted and burned, or the highways are unsafe to travel. Lots of ways to produce food at home, gardening, greenhouse, sprouting, window-boxes. If you live remote, for sure you want to be able to harvest any food animal that comes your way, or maybe trap or corral them for domestication. Can't put your reliance upon events that may never occur, though. Starvation and hunger lie down that road. Gotta assure that you have supplies to meet your dietary needs.
Survivalism ain't about gathering gear and supplies "in preparation"; it's about becoming self-reliant and self-sufficient and removing self & loved ones to a safe(r) venue if your surroundings are likely untenable or indefensible. Much more than guns & ammo and fighting skills. Maybe I"ve misunderstood the whole equation, but we've not focused on running & gunning skills, or spent thousands on "gun schooling". We all know how to shoot and have the gear, but all our other efforts at self-reliance have proven way more critical and valuable. There just isn't time, funds, or rationale for becoming "professionally proficient" (or touted as such) with one or more type of firearm when so many other skills pay daily dividends and get us that much more able to live free of electric grid and what others see as essential modern living services....
More on this theme very soon...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Sunday, November 11, 2012
NO ILLUSIONS
By now your political illusions should be shattered.
How many years, decades, generations have you voted, tried to make a difference, all the while hoping and praying "This Time, It'll Be Different"?
By now, unless you are hopelessly Dysfunctional on many levels, you have faced the Hard Truth... Namely, that The U.S.A. has been Totally Betrayed and Sold For Slaughter. Those who made this possible were fellow citizens; many touting all the pseudo-patriotic vitriol that has proven to be nothing more than affectation, a sheep's clothing the wolves could hide in while they profited from delivering U.S. to Our National Doom!
I am not here to convince you. The Fraud and Betrayal has been covered ad-nauseum. Most are just unable to conceive that they've been sold like beef entrails on the slaughterhouse floor. In 5th grade Social Studies, we learned about the Chicago Stockyards and their slogan that "every bit of a hog gets used, except the squeal". You either Know By Now that your leaders at every social level have hardened their hearts to your bleating, squealing, and loos, or you will believe that Arbeit Macht Frei as you past that signpost on your way down the chute.
Survivalism came about in the middle 70s because men like Kurt Saxon, Mel Tappan, Niven & Pournelle, Dr. Bruce Clayton and others could read the Writing On The Wall.
If you haven't been paying attention, the Abeit Macht Frei signpost is now far in your rear-view mirror...
Your future potentials, the potentials of your children and their progeny is dependent upon What You Decide To Do with the next few weeks. If you continue to watch the dog & pony show media serves-up, your time will have been wasted. If you decide that NOW IS THE TIME to assure that you have the means to stay: WARM, DRY, HYDRATED, FED, and Able To Mount Effective Defense, you may be responsible for the continuation of your line...
How many years, decades, generations have you voted, tried to make a difference, all the while hoping and praying "This Time, It'll Be Different"?
By now, unless you are hopelessly Dysfunctional on many levels, you have faced the Hard Truth... Namely, that The U.S.A. has been Totally Betrayed and Sold For Slaughter. Those who made this possible were fellow citizens; many touting all the pseudo-patriotic vitriol that has proven to be nothing more than affectation, a sheep's clothing the wolves could hide in while they profited from delivering U.S. to Our National Doom!
I am not here to convince you. The Fraud and Betrayal has been covered ad-nauseum. Most are just unable to conceive that they've been sold like beef entrails on the slaughterhouse floor. In 5th grade Social Studies, we learned about the Chicago Stockyards and their slogan that "every bit of a hog gets used, except the squeal". You either Know By Now that your leaders at every social level have hardened their hearts to your bleating, squealing, and loos, or you will believe that Arbeit Macht Frei as you past that signpost on your way down the chute.
Survivalism came about in the middle 70s because men like Kurt Saxon, Mel Tappan, Niven & Pournelle, Dr. Bruce Clayton and others could read the Writing On The Wall.
If you haven't been paying attention, the Abeit Macht Frei signpost is now far in your rear-view mirror...
Your future potentials, the potentials of your children and their progeny is dependent upon What You Decide To Do with the next few weeks. If you continue to watch the dog & pony show media serves-up, your time will have been wasted. If you decide that NOW IS THE TIME to assure that you have the means to stay: WARM, DRY, HYDRATED, FED, and Able To Mount Effective Defense, you may be responsible for the continuation of your line...
Saturday, November 3, 2012
The Aftermath Of Hurricane Sandy Will Affect All Americans....
Don't live anywhere near the path of Hurricane Sandy? Figure you dodged The Bullet? Maybe, but most likely not. Sandy has taken out key and vital infrastructure especially New Jersey shipping ports, trucking terminals and refining infrastructure. Not like the tonnage and container cargoes processed there will easily be diverted elsewhere on the Atlantic Seaboard. What's the nautical steaming distance to New Orleans or Houston? About 2,000 miles? Not much left of the Port of Baltimore. No real reason to ship goods to Boston if they need to go to the MidWest or other interior deployment warehouses. How much American capacity to ship to Europe is now offline?
There are many, many aspects of daily life which Sandy has interrupted and ground to ruin which have to be rebuilt or entirely replaced. Seawater, saltwater corrodes and destroys electrical equipment; even that built super-tough. Perhaps the electricity distribution assets that have been under tidal surge waters can be dried out and made to function in the shortrun, but doubtful they can be relied upon unless fully rebuilt.
Funny thing about the American Business Plan; Just In Time don't apply only to inventory distribution and management. There are no electrical distribution equipment manufacturers with huge warehouses full of ready to load on truck substations and large current handling gear. These are made to order. Nobody expected or anticipated a 14' seawater tidal surge that would submerge hundreds or maybe thousands of pieces of vital infrastructure electrical gear. There is no way to re-route around this. There is no ready to go solution. There is only place orders and wait for the gear to be built.
Where is the gear built? China? Mexico? Wherever the manufacturers decided to relocate after The Federal Govt paid them money to move. Maybe they maxed out their payday and relocated under The Caribbean Basin Initiative? Fruit Of The Loom got $10,000 cash payment from Govt for every job they relocated under CBI...
Essentially, in my estimation, America has just taken a double-tap centermass and this may be the Death Knell our leaders seemingly have aspired to enable.
Look at how The Federal Govt has concertedly acted to kill America since the mid-70s. Pretty hard to believe where we are today happened by accident. Not talking about the storm aftermouth. America is living in The Aftermath Of Its Greatness...
Essentially, The Federales put U.S. out of business in so many ways... No more mining, no more timbering, no more manufacturing. Agriculture on small farm level discouraged in every way possible. GMO and other engineered foods allowed and encouraged, all with deadly effects on those eating them, the farmland used to grow them, and farmers using them...
Look at the Ruin Dept of Treasury, federal reserve bank system, and WallStreet & Banking have put upon U.S. Since 2008, about $40 Trillion essentially given to Big Banks and firms like General Electric and General Motors' financing divisions once they declared they were "banks".
In August 2009, Wall Street Journal published article by Laurence Kotlikoff, tenured prof of Economics at Boston Univ where he disclosed by his estimations that the Total Federal Debt and Unfunded Liabilities of The USA stood at $207 Trillion not the $12 T then admitted as "national debt"....
Our elected officials at every level owe U.S. a fiduciary duty... Like physicians who once took Hypocratic Oath "first, do no harm"...
None of this shit has been dumped on U.S. by accident or mere happenstance.
There are several million survival sagas being played-out right now in and around the NYC Tri-State region. Being able to stay WARM, DRY, HYDRATED, FED, & CAPABLE OF SELF-DEFENSE has never been more critical for these people.
Hope you have read the handwriting on the wall: If you can't provide for your own daily needs with some assurance of self-sufficiency, or have the gear and supplies to enable your time to assimilate the knowledge and abilities to do so, you and those who depend on you face a very tenuous situation.
The discussion above about how America has been scuttled deliberately is just a few knots on the Gulliver. How did America's premier farming district, California's Central Valley get sacrificed for the benefit of a non-indigenous species of small fish in the Sacramento River? How is America's Coal Industry being hung-out to dry, along with consumer access to environmentally friendly cheap electricity and heating sources? The list goes on and on...
Saw something about FEMA having ordered 12M gals of unleaded and 10M gals of diesel fuel this week.... Undoubtedly the refiners will fill their contracts first and this is just another "accident" or bit of "bad planning" which will impair persons all over Eastern Seaboard travel and mobility plans.... Best have all your fuel needs met and get moving NOW if you plan to relocate...
Shit is about to get very real for tens of millions of Americans.
All Americans are going to see shortages of all sorts as supply and demand attributable to Sandy impacts all building materials, fuels, electric gear, food, drinking water, trucking deliveries and likely even mail.
I urge all readers not to get caught up in the theatrics of the political season, or spend valuable time in pursuits not designed to enable you to live more self-sufficiently. If you don't have gardening equipment, seed stocks, emergency gear and supplies of all types; NOW IS The Time To Take Action!
More to come on what you may want to consider on all sorts of personal levels in the days ahead as my time becomes more available
God Bless All Americans and we ask In Jesus' Name All HIS Grace and Mercies...
Don't live anywhere near the path of Hurricane Sandy? Figure you dodged The Bullet? Maybe, but most likely not. Sandy has taken out key and vital infrastructure especially New Jersey shipping ports, trucking terminals and refining infrastructure. Not like the tonnage and container cargoes processed there will easily be diverted elsewhere on the Atlantic Seaboard. What's the nautical steaming distance to New Orleans or Houston? About 2,000 miles? Not much left of the Port of Baltimore. No real reason to ship goods to Boston if they need to go to the MidWest or other interior deployment warehouses. How much American capacity to ship to Europe is now offline?
There are many, many aspects of daily life which Sandy has interrupted and ground to ruin which have to be rebuilt or entirely replaced. Seawater, saltwater corrodes and destroys electrical equipment; even that built super-tough. Perhaps the electricity distribution assets that have been under tidal surge waters can be dried out and made to function in the shortrun, but doubtful they can be relied upon unless fully rebuilt.
Funny thing about the American Business Plan; Just In Time don't apply only to inventory distribution and management. There are no electrical distribution equipment manufacturers with huge warehouses full of ready to load on truck substations and large current handling gear. These are made to order. Nobody expected or anticipated a 14' seawater tidal surge that would submerge hundreds or maybe thousands of pieces of vital infrastructure electrical gear. There is no way to re-route around this. There is no ready to go solution. There is only place orders and wait for the gear to be built.
Where is the gear built? China? Mexico? Wherever the manufacturers decided to relocate after The Federal Govt paid them money to move. Maybe they maxed out their payday and relocated under The Caribbean Basin Initiative? Fruit Of The Loom got $10,000 cash payment from Govt for every job they relocated under CBI...
Essentially, in my estimation, America has just taken a double-tap centermass and this may be the Death Knell our leaders seemingly have aspired to enable.
Look at how The Federal Govt has concertedly acted to kill America since the mid-70s. Pretty hard to believe where we are today happened by accident. Not talking about the storm aftermouth. America is living in The Aftermath Of Its Greatness...
Essentially, The Federales put U.S. out of business in so many ways... No more mining, no more timbering, no more manufacturing. Agriculture on small farm level discouraged in every way possible. GMO and other engineered foods allowed and encouraged, all with deadly effects on those eating them, the farmland used to grow them, and farmers using them...
Look at the Ruin Dept of Treasury, federal reserve bank system, and WallStreet & Banking have put upon U.S. Since 2008, about $40 Trillion essentially given to Big Banks and firms like General Electric and General Motors' financing divisions once they declared they were "banks".
In August 2009, Wall Street Journal published article by Laurence Kotlikoff, tenured prof of Economics at Boston Univ where he disclosed by his estimations that the Total Federal Debt and Unfunded Liabilities of The USA stood at $207 Trillion not the $12 T then admitted as "national debt"....
Our elected officials at every level owe U.S. a fiduciary duty... Like physicians who once took Hypocratic Oath "first, do no harm"...
None of this shit has been dumped on U.S. by accident or mere happenstance.
There are several million survival sagas being played-out right now in and around the NYC Tri-State region. Being able to stay WARM, DRY, HYDRATED, FED, & CAPABLE OF SELF-DEFENSE has never been more critical for these people.
Hope you have read the handwriting on the wall: If you can't provide for your own daily needs with some assurance of self-sufficiency, or have the gear and supplies to enable your time to assimilate the knowledge and abilities to do so, you and those who depend on you face a very tenuous situation.
The discussion above about how America has been scuttled deliberately is just a few knots on the Gulliver. How did America's premier farming district, California's Central Valley get sacrificed for the benefit of a non-indigenous species of small fish in the Sacramento River? How is America's Coal Industry being hung-out to dry, along with consumer access to environmentally friendly cheap electricity and heating sources? The list goes on and on...
Saw something about FEMA having ordered 12M gals of unleaded and 10M gals of diesel fuel this week.... Undoubtedly the refiners will fill their contracts first and this is just another "accident" or bit of "bad planning" which will impair persons all over Eastern Seaboard travel and mobility plans.... Best have all your fuel needs met and get moving NOW if you plan to relocate...
Shit is about to get very real for tens of millions of Americans.
All Americans are going to see shortages of all sorts as supply and demand attributable to Sandy impacts all building materials, fuels, electric gear, food, drinking water, trucking deliveries and likely even mail.
I urge all readers not to get caught up in the theatrics of the political season, or spend valuable time in pursuits not designed to enable you to live more self-sufficiently. If you don't have gardening equipment, seed stocks, emergency gear and supplies of all types; NOW IS The Time To Take Action!
More to come on what you may want to consider on all sorts of personal levels in the days ahead as my time becomes more available
God Bless All Americans and we ask In Jesus' Name All HIS Grace and Mercies...
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