Friday, April 10, 2015

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WRONG EMPIRE MODEL

All empires crash and burn in spectacular fashion.  But, you see, since America never had an empire, that doesn’t apply to us.  Oh.  My.  Mother Living.  God.  Has the public school system really done such a wonderful job brainwashing us?  People believe that crap?  Evidently, because if you dare to believe we are an empire, Rush will call you a communist.  Try to follow his logic.  Obama hates America ( whether because he is a socialist, or a Kenyan, or a Muslim, or whatever- in a small way, I actually almost feel sorry for the turd, as he seems about as stupid as all the rest of us if not more so ).  He says mean things about how our glorious peace loving non-killing wedding party drone heavy military behaves.  If he hates the Right ( cue glorious patriotic party music ), then anyone not agreeing with the Right is just like him and hates America.  So if you call America an empire you are am Obama Lover.  Or something close to that.  I am sad and ashamed I used to actually like and listen to Rush on a regular basis.  Back in a more innocent time when I believed the parties were different and didn’t think elections were rigged.  Anyway, almost anywhere you look, anyone pointing at “empire” is ridiculed and attacked by legions of academics paid handsomely to lie and distort.  Even British history writers play the “accidental empire” card, as if we tripped over the corpses of the Nazis and quite by accident took over the joint with the Brits as close and admired consultants.  Idiots. 

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Even those you do not try to contort logic into different shapes still have rather more than a few excuses for denying our empire is imploding.  Does this sound familiar? “Fracking oil and natural gas FOREVER!!!  FOREVER, I tells ya!”.  And, of course, the whole “heroic free market capitalists are being unfairly prosecuted by fake Gore Warming advocates”.  This one is definitely a convoluted lie, because we are running a fascist system here, folks.  The bankers fund both governments and corporations.  Tall tales of corporations in control are spin to detract attention from the central bankers.  And spin blaming corporations for not allowing us to “learn about” earth warming caused by energy use is really just all about saying The Weather Isn’t Really Changing.  So, discredit both companies and scientists on the payroll by saying they lie about global warming is really lies to say nothing to see here, move along.  It isn’t the Left trying to levy a carbon tax.  Look, a volcano erupting in Indonesia wipes out a year of crops in North America.  A two week blizzard descends on North Dakota ( or perhaps it was South-whatever ) and the wind chill is Antarctica cold as in close to 80 BELOW ZERO.  And that was in the 1880’s, long before cars and air conditioning.  Europe has seen centuries of both above average and below average temperatures.  Centuries.  Forget about weather change needing a culprit.  It just happens.  Has, and will.  And, is.  The Druid Dude was kind enough on 3-25-15 to provide a link about the North Atlantic current change.  That is scary crap.  It means the weather anomalies are going to stay with us.

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What happened one of the last times weather got screwy? The Mongols needed grass, after their area dried up.  And from one tiny area being thrown into climate chaos, almost all of Asia and Europe saw many years of attack and conquest and rapine.  Think about how just one group-although, obviously, the RIGHT group- seeing climate change brought about so much war and slaughter and disease and wealth transformation.  And the areas seeing climate change today are far bigger than some nomads pasture.  Now, I’ve long contended that most empires fell due to stripping the soil ( not an original conclusion-a wonderful study is the short and easy to read “Dirt” ).  Weather change, economic ruination, social unrest and barbarian invasions go along with that.  But food shortages are key.  Most “professionals” are bound and determined to ignore that, as that certainly doesn’t give their study specialty much job security.  It IS all about the food.  Care to guess the kind of mess we are in for when everyone is hungry?  And armed ( on a global scale.  Your AR-15 will have limited effect against nuclear fallout from half the world away ).  But, bad as that will be, I’m not here preaching the ocean currents shifting will doom us all.  What I’d like to hypothesize is that the civilization collapse we should be focusing on is the Mongol caused one, and not the customary Rome or Mayan collapse.

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Granted, food was key there also.  But what concerns me more is the always retarded and irritating insistence we have a good three hundred years of slow decline ahead of us to cushion our fall.  What horse apples.  Our water supply, our soil and our fair weather are going to last three hundred years ( minus the already 36 years since global peak per capita energy use started declining ) more?  People don’t starve willingly.  They go out and take food by force.  And if you are lucky, you are left alive to bring in a new crop next year.  If you are a farmer.  Which none of us are.  Even the poor countries are too heavily mechanized to avoid energy decline effecting food.  Who suffered most historically in war and famine?  City folk.  And where do most of us live now?  There are not enough farmers, the regular historic 90%, to cushion us in a collapse.  The cities are too dependent on petroleum for this to be a long slow collapse. 

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So, why model on the Mongol invasions?  Back then, the horsemen followed the fresh grass to the wealth.  Many decentralized tribes merged to survive, as the local fodder was insufficient to stay.  By moving as one, the unity had to be bribed for.  So they looted half the globe.  Now, once again half the globe will belong in war and famine and drought and disease ( the other half, such as most of Africa, is already there.  The difference will be, no more military supplies will arrive [ blood diamonds will be the least worry of hungry once-industrial nations ] and the fighting will prolong as warfare slows, at the same time food aid completely dries up, wiping out the refugee camps ).  And the groups will raid each other.  With not much to show for their efforts.  It will actually be more like the Thirty Years War, but with a lot more people and less food.  You will have twenty different groups fighting over the same areas, some being wiped out, others consolidating, then famine setting in to drive them elsewhere, wherein yet another couple of groups converge on the original spot and rinse and repeat.  With the Mongols, the new boss settled the war quick and the farmers still planted.  In today’s global economy of industrial farming, everything is centralized.  Oil comes from half way across the world to pump the groundwater to irrigate denuded land fed by chemical fertilizers from half way around the world, then shipped on trucks using spare parts from half way across the world to drive hundreds and thousands of miles to the cities to deliver food.  And war disrupts trade.  And centralization.  War will be global, even if small scale after the initial conflict, with famine and flood or draught and infertile soil everywhere. 

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We all make fun of the orange juice hat wearing gay boys in the navy, but truth be told they are the guys that make trade possible globally.  Fun filled fact, WWII saw thousands of ships in our navy/merchant marine.  Even the Korean War still saw about a thousand ships.  We let that decline ruinously where even the happily money drunk Reagan years couldn’t get our fleet back up to 600 ships.  It is now down to almost 250 ships, at a time trade is more global than ever.  Lack of trade protection.  Energy decline.  Draught and other climate disasters.  An economy held aloft only by derivatives ( think, Orange County California writ large ).  To call the times ahead interesting is saying the least.

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16 comments:

  1. After listening to talk radio for many years in 1991 (pre-internet) I stumbled on a hoon named Rush and was instantly smitten. I listened everyday and even read both of his books and then watched his TV show. I was elated to hear someone that talked like I think. As I got used to him, and became involved with the internet and newsgroups his luster started to tarnish. By 1995 I saw that he was a cheerleader for the right and was only halfway truthful. His game was to slam the left, which they deserve, and not slam the right, even though they deserve it too. Nope, he no longer fit me and never really did. He just happened to fit closer than anyone else I had encountered. Then came G Gordon Liddy and a littany of other talkers and soon all of them were cast aside. By 2000 I had made great strides in my lifelong search for individual freedom and it was about then that I came to the conclusion that the life I want to live cannot be done so in this country any longer unless I wanted to risk incarceration or worse. Unless I took my game off road so to speak. I have to turn my back on just about everything I was used to, yet not really wanting, ie., society. In 2006 we had gotten our ducks in order, liquidated almost everything, and pulled up stakes and ventured to the hinterlands, a place where we can hide in plain site. I don't want to be anything to anyone else, I don't want to be a citizen, a club member, nothing. I just want to be me, and left alone. I detest most of society and at least 99% of the population. I now go weeks without seeing another human being except my wife and that suits me fine. Our incomes are conveyed by email and other online sources and we rarely meet face to face with the people we do business with around the globe. This is about as good as it gets, but it's still not good enough. We are within 100 miles of a major metropolis and that makes me nervous - golden hordes and all. So we are planning. But we are also getting older. So we have to plan very carefully. I suspect another major move in the next 5 years if this world lasts that long and I'm not betting it will.

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    1. I'm far from happy being so close to town-five miles. Granted, small town. But I hear you. Getting older, settling down. Knowing it sucks to either move or not to. Obviously, the only correct answer is to move now. But sometimes, you look at all you've already done and just can't summon the energy for more.

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    2. Ghostsniper's comments pretty much describe the way that I feel. I was a Rush fan, then later followed Faux news. But it wasn't long before I had determined that they were merely cheerleaders for the right, even when the right was acting left (patriot act anyone?). But from the moment that modern neo-conservatism hopped on the feminist bandwagon with both feet I dropped it like a hot rock.

      I have little use for modern society as well, and plan on moving out as far as I practically can. If I didn't have to work, I'd simply go all "Jeremiah Johnson" on society and go way out off of the beaten path. I don't wish to contribute anymore than necessary to a society that pushes various agendas that I simply could never get on board with. And I will never see two dudes getting married as a normal thing, so I guess I'm just a "bigot" that way.

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    3. Cue in music from Brokeback Mountain.

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  2. I have a few questions for you James that have been nagging me as of late?

    I have heard that post 911, that you can no longer have a P.O. box without a physical address attached to it? If so, how do you get around this? Use a parents or friends physical address? Do you they have to live in the same state? What about your driver's license? Does your P.O. appear on it, or the physical address, even though you don't actually reside there?

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    1. I can't really think of any good answer for you, although what I did is show my land deed. Pay $100 down payment, get the contract deed, use that as proof of residence, then...stop payments?

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    2. I highly recommend Luna's book. Jim's location is very easy to find on Google Earth and if this bothers you (as it sounds like it does) then read his book and don't write a blog.

      Hope this helps. Jim's probably saying, "Shite, it's time to move." :)

      http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_12?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=how+to+be+invisible+3rd+edition+by+jj+luna&sprefix=how+to+be+in%2Cstripbooks%2C220

      Remember to link through Jim for your Amazon purchases.....

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    3. If a minion is motivated enough to travel half way across the country for my wheat, I'll consider my death from a worthy opponent justified

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  3. I'm inspired by your desert homesteading journey James, and plan on heading out to Nevada within the next month or so. As per my previous post, the Modoc county land deal fell through. No loss there, as there were excessive regulations as is typically the case in CA.

    I'm about 4.5 to 5 hours from Lovelock and Winnemucca respectively. Any thoughts or input on these two locales? Saw some very affordable land near Winnemucca. One parcel was 40 acres for under $10k. There were some 10 and 5 acre parcels for around half that. I don't really want, or have $10k to spend on 40 acres, but I also fear the possibility of it building up around me, and I absolutely detest having neighbour's. So if you have a large plot of land, and assuming that it's roughly square, you can put your home in the middle, and even if it were to build to build up in the area, you would hopefully be buffered from it. The question is, what's the least amount of land that can provide that decent buffer?

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    1. I'd think 10 would be better than 5. Going through high school, we had 10 acres and no neighbors. Going back to visit when my daughter was born, the suburbs had built up all around it. I felt buffered, but barely. As far as location, both have state prisons. Winn has half the Elko population, but Lov a lot less. Also, Lov is lower elevation so not as hideous in winter.

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    2. If you can handle cold and no road/utility access I have 40 acres I would be happy to sell a somewhat like minded person. No building codes for personal residences either (only commercial). Less than $10k even. My other 40 acre parcel where I am building has road access, and even at the mid point of the land, if it weren't for the hills there would be clear line of sight from the road. From the top of the hills I can clearly see the town @7-10 miles away. Cant make out any people, but big rigs and buildings are clearly visible. So distance is less important to privacy that terrain IMHO. Which is why I love both my parcels of property- they have hills and VALLEYS for view and concealment, and water gathering, something very important on the plains or deserts. As long as your property is big enough to have both you should be able to find a spot dry enough to build, wet enough to garden seasonally, and hidden enough that the hordes will have a hard time finding you.
      Sure if you have building inspectors (HAHA I dont ! X-P ) or contractors/utilities coming to your place they will know where it is at, and at least roughly so will anyone who ever looks at the county plat book.
      BUT if it is out of view, then most people wont know what you have, and if you have little to no code enforcement or utilities you minimize the view that might come to know what you have.
      I also recommend getting a few game cameras in key spots to record the activity on and near any property you buy. My road gets far more travel across it than I thought about 3-4 vehicles a week, and during hunting season at least 3 hunters staring daggers at my fence before going the other way onto state land...

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    3. We lucked out. We have 4 acres, about 3/4 of which is woods, and the 3 property owners around us have huge acreage - 30 to 750 acres, consisting of woods and never farmed farmland. All of them have owned their land for more than 30 years and don't plan to leave as their families are all located close by.

      Keep in mind that it's not the land you're in disagreement with, it's the landowners that can make or break you. When you find a piece of property you are happy with study closely the neighbors.

      But be advised, in rural areas prying eyes are met with extreme suspicion. The first year or two is spent offloading all your urban baggage that you don't even know you are carrying.

      And never tell people how things are done where you're from, they don't care, and you'll make your inclusion more difficult. Spend more time listening and observing and almost no yappin'.

      "The fool talks and the wise man listens."

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    4. I'm sorry, didn't hear you. Too busy talkin

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    5. Sounds like a great deal for someone Grey. I especially like the no building codes part! (I will touch on this more in my next comment).

      The land that I'm seeing is mostly flat and open; no trees, mostly sage, and offers little privacy. The plan is to get (hopefully?) enough land to provide a buffer, put a home in the middle, and plant fast growing trees (Eucalyptus) to shield it from road view.

      Nevada is not my first choice. I'm in CA, and the lack of time, funds, and an aging mother make it challenging for me to move too far away at this point in time. Also, I'm not getting any younger myself. The idea at this point is to find the closest, and least screwed up place as possible to relocate to. And Oregon and Washington are out.

      Like your trail cam idea. Good security for the off grid homestead.

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  4. The US navy rules the world, has done since WW2 and is so good at it that most of the world doesn't realize its being ruled by the US navy. Army and airforce are only there to back up the real might, the navy. So long as the US navy rules supream dept is of no real concern cause there is no one big enough to enforce a forclosure. The navy is the key bottom card in this ricket high tower of cards we call the western world. Take it out and the tower of cards don't stand a chance.

    From your on again off again Aussie minion

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    1. Debt doesn't matter because ALL currencies default. What matters is which currency is the global trade standard. When the PetroDollar becomes the Greenback, our navy is useless. Stay reading, I need boots on the ground Down Under.

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