panic 1 of 3

PANIC 1

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In this series, we’ll Panic Now rather than Plan For Perfection Panicking Tomorrow.  Instead of meticulously choosing the best, most rational preparation tools and strategies, how about just thinking about what you need now.  Right now.  This has always been how I’ve prepped-the Cold War nuclear threat of “better one year too early than one minute too late”.  But now I’d like to focus on the economic collapse as if it were to start tomorrow.

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The two extremes of prepping seem to be the only two choices for most folks.  They either think they can get into massive debt and the literally overnight collapse saves them from repaying that, or they think we are in a multi-century collapse and they have all the time in the world.  But economic collapses tend to screw you, should you hold either view, and economic collapse is also THE most likely crash you are going to see.  And for Christ’s sake, forget about natural disasters.  Those are already prepped for by society ( hello?  It’s called insurance ).  All you need to survive a natural disaster is some camping equipment.

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If you can’t figure out camping equipment, if you need to endlessly peruse the Interweb chat rooms talking about the best camping equipment, I hold little hope for your survival.  A ten year old kid can pretty much figure out on his own ( or with a five minute talk with his dad ) what he needs to grab to go camping.  I don’t know if this is the natural end game of dumbing down public education, or the result of commercializing every single item or task to the point of complete helplessness ( why are you researching the best company to buy MRE’s from?  Grab some jerky, peanut butter, Top Ramen and oatmeal, get more calories for far less cost and better taste and call it a damn day, already ), but it is beyond embarrassing.

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Now, none of us focuses very well on anything, if we are exposed to all the distractions of modern society.  Sometimes we miss the obvious ( I was buying hideously overpriced wheat kernels from a store-this was the pioneer of bulk bin sales-before I read in Kurt Saxon’s short lived militia mail order newspaper about feed store wheat.  At like one tenth the price ).  Sometimes we need to read from others experiences to get better ideas.  What astonishes me is the inability to follow to its logical conclusion so many issues that seems to be a cultural trait.

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After Hurricane Katrina ( the last big natural disaster that was covered by the media to actually deliver news.  Since then, the State owned media no longer reports.  They have simply become Pravda ), who didn’t get that the standard three day prepping was no longer valid?  That our normal way of doing business was no longer working?  That you needed to Question Everything?  Good gravy, people, its been over a decade!  Who missed the memo that the Haiti disaster was just a Clinton Foundation fund raiser?  That we’ve reached the point of overpopulation that we no longer have the resources to recover from disruptions?

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That doesn’t invalidate having insurance for natural disasters.  What insurance does is ensure Continuity Of Normalcy.  What I’m saying is that by now you SHOULD have an idea how vulnerable and decrepit our entire civilization has become.  How long term planning is now the only planning, preparedness wise.  Anyone not starting at a years supply of everything is set up to fail.  And that is a start, not an end.  But, to return to economic collapse.  The state we are already in.  The Any Day Now continuation of the 2008 crash.  It doesn’t sound as if too many of you are Panicking Now. 

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You don’t need to panic and go Full Retard.  You just need to panic enough to fill out your preps.  To recognize that no matter how things look in the Oval Office or on Wall Street, it is all a façade and things are going to collapse very quickly, economically, this next time.  We won’t get a years Heads Up this time.  Why?  Because last time the housing bubble deflated that long, before the couple of weeks implosion of the banks.  This next time, the system is exponentially more vulnerable.

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The banks never fixed the problems leading to the derivatives bubble bursting.  They only plastered layers and layers of lipstick on that pig.  They doubled down on the problem ( lack of assets to offset their gambles ), looked around in amazement that it actually worked again, so doubled down several more times.  Just like last time, the Beautiful People got rich and the poor got poorer.  But this time the bubble is orders of magnitude larger.  You don’t know what the pin will be this time, but I can guarantee that the bubble won’t slowly lose air, allowing you to escape.  The bubble will pop overnight ( before, there were some physical assets underpinning the derivatives.  Now? ). 

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When you have computers working at the speed beyond human comprehension, crap goes down hill that much faster.  And when economic crashes happen, you experience a personal collapse which sees your enemies stronger than ever even as you are weakened.  You lose hours at work or your employment.  You lose assets and prices increase.  Your local taxes go up every year as your take home pay decreases.  In short, you suddenly, without warning, lose your ability to prep for the much bigger, further in the future civilization collapse.

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So you panic NOW, prior to the economic implosion, prepping.  If you don’t act as if you can’t prep tomorrow, you are setting yourself up for failure.  Time to start acting as if you don’t have twenty years to prep, because our economy sure won‘t last that long.  Which means you accept the fact that you’ll need to lower your standards in prepping supplies and accept more Better Than Nothings.  No one is saying you need to stop after that, if there is time.  You cannot waste money prepping for basics.  It is simply impossible.  You can waste money buying too expensive toys, or impossibly cheap guns ( like, from China ), but redneck prepper supplies will always appreciate in value.

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Don’t like wheat?  Everyone likes bread, so everyone eats wheat ( except those glutton intolerant folks-remember, experiment with some sprouted kernels to see if that helps.  You can sprout, dry, THEN grind, for regular bread ).  True, few want to JUST eat wheat for a diet.  But you will if you have to because we all eat bread.  And I can guarantee you you’ll get sick of over processed freeze dried food before you will fresh ground wheat bread.  So, the first order of business is to buy wheat kernels, regardless of whether you want them as your sole dietary food or not. 

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In a emergency, it is better to have more of a food you like but don’t like so much as to only eat that one item, than have no food at all.  Worse case ( or, best case, really ), you feed to others in the tribe, or trade it.  Wheat kernels store forever.  And as petroleum becomes more dear, will only go up in price.  You cannot lose by buying wheat, even if you plan on getting another kind of food for storage.  Whatever food storage you have now, double it through wheat.  Peace of mind for very little extra.  At $100 per year of calories ( plus storage container cost ), it is retarded to NOT have wheat.

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That was the first panic buying item.  Tomorrow, do you have too many guns and not enough ammo?

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