Sunday, December 16, 2018

survival hermitage book 6


SURVIVAL HERMITAGE BOOK 6
ALPHA FANTASIES
Most advice on forming survivalist tribes is scanty and/or unrealistic.  A few writers report back with the seemingly universal truth that no group stays together long enough to be viable.  This is no accident, and it is nobody’s fault past the asswhores who have social engineered our society for their own profit ( looking at you 1% humpers ).  We have been programmed to be individualistic.  It is as simple as that, but since I might one day get paid by the word I’ll stretch that out a bit more into a long ass article.
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The last time we as a nation were a borg like hive mind was pre-Vietnam War.  Not coincidentally, that was also the last time we had the economic vitality to bribe the whole country into compliance. Even if this country had stayed lily white with no imported slaves, from the very beginning we were NOT a homogenous cultural entity.  Far too many warring factions were thrown together.  Your Puritans of New England were far different from your Scottish peasants who inhabited the Appalachians.  Who were far different from your English quasi-nobility who farmed the lowlands right next to them.
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With a not very velvet covered mail fist killing all dissenters on one hand and the other offering abundant resources of a smallpox denuded continent, the vastly differing cultures were forced and bribed to play nice with each other.  But of course, that wasn’t enough for the elite.  They had to leave our domestic sandbox and start playing Mighty Emperor around the globe.  Culminating in the second world war which finally bought us half the globe to exploit.  Alas, that empire only lasted twenty years.  We used a large portion of our oil and ore wealth to purchase it and didn’t have enough to keep it.
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We might not have topped out at oil production until a decade past the start of economic contraction and social implosion, but our global commitments dogpiled us faster than our resource extraction.  Our global oil empire returned wealth for twenty years, followed by ten years of turmoil as it unraveled ( losing the Vietnam War in and of itself was no big deal.  But that was what lost us the empire, which was a far bigger deal ) and has since been shrinking.  But more importantly for our discussion here, end empire was the beginning of domestic asset seizure.
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Preppers and survivalists are busy looking to the horizon for the global American hegemony collapse.  It is in your rear view mirror.  Its implosion began in the Sixties due to economic contraction and ended as we were unable to fund the war in Vietnam, the military defeat of empire.  The only reason we didn’t follow England into Turd World Nation status then and there was Saudi Arabian oil.  That has allowed us up until a decade ago to finance kicking the can down the road.
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Our Domestic Oil global empire lasted twenty years.  Our Saudi Oil global empire lasted a bit over thirty ( until Peak Oil 2005 ).  Since that time our wealth measured in net energy has fallen faster than any other time using carbon fuels.  Perhaps not coincidentally as we exponentially ramped up immigration.  But the whole time, the fifty plus years, through all the noise of the cultural war, one aspect we missed was the conquer by separation down to the lone individual.  It started out with FDR’s ruination of the generations cohesion through bribery, killing the family farm and implementing Social Security. 
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The 60’s saw the Divide And Conquer as women were freed from the consequences of sex with the birth control pill and Bitches Power was born.  Encouraged, and fed by the 1%.  Women entering the workplace killed the Unions and halved the pay for men, ultimately.  But that wasn’t enough.  Immigration floodgates opened, and have only been widened over the years.  Yet even THAT wasn’t close to enough.  All cultural ties and support of group cohesion was destroyed.  We all became isolated islands, one at war with all.  White families were mostly eliminated and men fought men and women and immigrants for less jobs.
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And because we have all grown up in the trend towards less group cohesion and more individual autonomy ( if that trend wasn’t already solidified before our birth ), no one, and I mean NO one, places their individual desires below that of any group.  Your loving wife?  She will throw you under the bus in a heartbeat.  Don’t believe me?  Stop working and get back to me real quick.  Your kids?  They love you by obligation and will prove this to you every day by placing their needs first.  This is why dogs are more popular than ever.
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Not that you can blame anyone.  Responsibilities must be paired to rewards.  When the government pays you to be individualistic, in a fifty year economic decline, everyone will take the only payday and pledge allegiance to the paymaster, just in order to survive.  Follow the money.  The path is not in the least obscured.  And individualism leads to some particularly strange mental delusions.  Bitches be thinking they are strong and independent even as the government pays and protects them ( I’m trying not to be sexist-males mostly think the same way, they just are not as deluded as danger visits them first ). 
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And most males think a bit too highly about their own abilities.  Not as in being conceited as a byproduct of seeking alpha status.  No, as in pure delusion.  With no power from a group, no social infrastructure to belong to, denial is a natural reaction.  Better to deny you are alone and vulnerable, to the point you think that this liability is an asset.  You think you are Billy Bad Ass, able to whip the world by yourself.  That is why every group member is screwed in the head, viewed from other members.
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And why they themselves think only they are worthy of leading the group.  Think about what it would be like living in an insane asylum.  Everyone is in their own little fantasy world, completely unable to function together because no one’s reality matches.  Looking in from the outside, all autonomous units function completely on their own.  THAT is today’s modern world.  We are all Armies Of One ( much truer slogan than “One World Government”.  Brought to you in celebratory orgasmic delight after Bush Senior finally journeyed to the lowest depths of Hell ).
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Social Media didn’t cause autonomy.  It is just the logical end of our several generation journey down that road.  For the little breeding that Whites do, all members of that supposed family unit are independent actors trying their mightiest to avoid and ignore these strangers in their house.  And you think forming a survival group has a snowballs chance in the very Hell Poppy inhabits of being successful?  You are so tuned into your individual reality that you ignore all that transpires outside your brain bucket.  When communicating with ANYONE-wife, kids, co workers, retail workers-both of you are talking past each other, two insane dudes from different planets.
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That is what isolation does to individuals-it makes them literally insane.  You are already unable to communicate with anyone else ( which is why soul mates and true friends are so rare ), social isolation, so being a hermit isn’t REALLY that much of a stretch from current reality ( just go into town at least once a month to talk to others, to avoid talking to yourself ).  And trying to form a survival tribe is impossible since all members won’t usually abandon a lifetime practice of individuality.  And, no, I’m not judging.
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We are ALL like this, unable to understand anyone else.  Why NOT just take it to its logical conclusion and be a hermit?  But if you do try to form a group, know that it will NEVER work.  Because we don’t “do” tribes anymore.  Not Whites ( a coming chapter will explore this ).  We are all autonomous.  If we are all our own tribe, how could we not all be Alphas when we try to form a tribe?  We can’t.  We are only forming tribes because we know that is better, but we don’t understand we have isolated ourselves by thinking as our own group.
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

bike tubes


BIKE TUBES
Whenever one of you say to yourself, “Self,  I wish Jim would cover more day to day minutia on living frugal or off grid”, remember this article that you probably have no interest in.  You should.  I mean, more than likely, high probability, you’ll end up on your bicycle, like it or not.  I would actually feel comfortable betting any one of you a jelly filled donut that in my lifetime you’ll be full time biking.  And before any of you blurt out “We’re Fracking Fags And We’re Here To Stay”, as you wave your solid brown colored solidarity flag, NO!  Just, No.
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The brown colored flag is because your head is up your ass, by the way.  No matter what color you started out with, it turns brown.  The Fracking Miracle Of Energy Independence is not retarded in the way Pro Gore Warmers are.  You can actually prove anti-fracking propaganda, unlike trying to prove no sun spots equals Anthro-Warming.  I merely wish you to close your eyes and remember the Seventies Oil Issues.  Now flip the math.  As in, now we have the lesser amount of oil produced locally and the larger amount imported.
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As bad as the 70’s were, what you see next is Krakatoa compared to St. Helens.  Back then, we started getting free oil from the Saudi’s ( PetroDollar standard ).  Next, we lose the Oil For Nothing And Your Chicks For Free.  Oh, and don’t forget most commutes are longer now.  You cannot pretend anything will work out well at all.  If you don’t have a bicycle now, Bad Minion!  You don’t even have to ride it, you lazy hump.  Keep fresh tires and tubes in storage, not on the bike, and lube up what needs to be.  I use motor oil for the chain.
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And have axle grease.  Most new bikes have cheaper factory oil on the bearings so you’ll need to fix that right away.  And used bikes probably never had any added at all.  You know how I feel about mountain bikes.  They are ten speeds with fat tires.  I am nobodies idea of a handyman, so I swear by single speeds ( beach cruisers ) to avoid 80% of unnecessary mechanic work or parts replacement.  Yes, I have to get off the bike and push it up the hill.  And it is totally worth it.
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Although good luck finding a single speed bike, used.  All the crappiest crap with junk parts are for sale.  I would get a $20 mountain bike with 26 inch tires and turn it into a cruiser.  My old geared bike and my new single speed have the same interior space between the back forks ( if you aren’t sure, go to Wally with a tape measure and get a base measurement from their beach cruiser ).  I can easily slap on a coaster brake wheel and throw away the derailer and hand brakes.  Now you have a cheap single speed.
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Okay, it isn’t exactly that easy.  There is the issue of the crank assembly and the front tire is a weird non-slip-off type.  And it might just be cheaper to buy a Wal-Mart crap bike and have better replacement parts ready for it.  Although that doubles the price of the bike.  You could just stick with geared bikes-but I hate hand brakes in the rain.  I’ll just say that after a bit over twenty years biking, the issues of geared bikes mechanically and price wise don’t pay for the ease of getting up hills, at least for me.
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Let me try to put this in perspective.  Let’s say you bought an AR-15 because everyone else has one.  You’ll find parts from now til your grandson dies of old age. But imagine if every single one of those AR’s was a $279 polymer AR.  They were all equally useless, even if they were universal.  That is how I look at mountain bikes.  You’re better off going proprietary and stocking deep.  But however you do it, you need bikes and bike accessories stockpiled NOW.  Once everyone needs one the supply disappears magically overnight ( and if you have a bike junk yard, you are sitting on gold ).
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Which brings me to the only damn reason I’m writing this article, bike tubes.  I only use the thick Green Goop tires ( goat head stickers every-damn-where ): 
You can get them at Wally, but I don’t think they are as well made, even for the same brand ( but this could just be my paranoia ).  Even the better quality Amazon ones are not as good as they used to be ( less liquid?  Thinner? ).  If you want super cheap, but thin tubes, here is the bulk product:
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Either way, I’ve mentioned an extra super deluxe cheap way to patch tubes I saw on YouTube ( I used to always replace the tube rather than patch it, given the distances I rode.  Until I saw this ).  Blow up the tube to find the leak.  Mark with chalk.  Let enough air out so there is no pressure.  Put Super Glue around and on the hole and immediately place your paper patch on it.  It should dry in far less than a minute.  You can use paper or cardboard.  I like paper shopping bags.  Make sure the paper is absorbent, not slick. 
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And that is it.  Blow the tube back up.  You are done.  Just like what a Green Goop tire USED to do, seal up to small nail size holes.  I only still use those because the tire is thicker and will still resist SOME thorns and stickers.  With a $2 tube you might be patching much more often.  To me, the $7.50 tube is worth the potential of far less repairs.  But the patch itself?  I was VERY impressed.  I torture tested the crap out it to be sure before I wrote this. 
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See, this is why I am Baby Jesus’ Mostest Favorite.  I place myself in the maw of danger, risking being stranded miles from a spare tube, to test out to see if a patch is a good idea.  Yes, I could carry a spare.  Rather, I carry a car size can of Fix A Flat.  And ever since I’ve started carrying it, it is a Voodu powerful Juju instrument against the Merry Prankster gods such as Coyote or Loki.  I’ve yet to get a flat any distance from the town house or the B-POD ( knock on mo-fo’en wood! ).
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Of course, those backpack size air pumps are a curse.  It takes ten times as much pumping as a two foot tall floor version.  And it is all hand held.  That sucker wears you out.  That is why I don’t look forward to an en route tube leak.  Not for the effort of changing or patching, but because of the effort using that stupid ass puny pump ( one of these days I’ll figure out a clamping system for a full size pump ).  I simply lose my wind far too easy nowadays.  Steady pedaling, no trouble.  Up a slight incline, I lose my breath.
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Walk all day, no problem.  Go up ten stairs, lose my breath.  And that damn air pump kicks my ass.  But I was bound and determined to defy the gods and throw caution to the wind and test the Super Glue Patch.  Going to my B-POD is a four mile round trip over pretty bad washboard dirt roads ( and another eight pavement ).  I did that twice.  AND let it sit for two weeks without using it ( I cheated one week and took the Jeep, as the snow made the bike rather dangerous ). 
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I think we can say the patch worked.  One caution, however.  Do NOT use Wal-Mart generic brand Super Glue.  The tiniest hole on the top, NOT squeezing the bottle, and the glue flowed like water.  It was a waste of glue, a lot pouring down the side of the tube. I need to experiment with other types.  Of course, the next time I went to Wally, they only had the expensive $3.50-$5 containers ( paying for the brand name ).  So this will be a work in progress trying to ID the best value in glue.  We know the crap glue works, we just need one a bit thicker.
( .Y. )
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Friday, December 14, 2018

and then there was none 2 of 2


AND THEN THERE WAS NONE 2
“Overnight” collapses are really Waterfall Collapses.  A long time coming, with only the timing unknown.  You can’t judge which snowflake is going to be the cause of the avalanche.  You can only NOT build the house in the path of one, or go hiking in an area prone to them.  If you know an avalanche CAN happen, you stay out of its way.  You know Race Unrest already CAN happen.  You know as resources shrink it will go from Unrest to Blood Letting.  Do NOT be in its path.  If you aren’t assuming the worst, your minion membership card is in jeopardy. 
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Identifying trends rather than specific occurrences not only simplifies things and makes planning easier, it also reduces your stress reading the daily news.  Look at silver.  All you need to know is that we are ten years past Global Peak Silver.  And that there is TEN times the aboveground gold supply as there is silver ( all the demand and then destruction by Industry ).  You know mining costs are going up all the time.  And that Peak Oil will work negatively behind extraction.  Your obvious conclusion is that silver will go up, a LOT.
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My guess?  One thousand times.  Yes, $14,000 an ounce in TODAY’S dollars.  This stuff is as simple as scratching your ass and conducting a sniff test to see if you properly wipe.  Or bath.  Jesus, man, have some pride!  If there is ten times the aboveground supply of gold as there is silver, take the gold price and multiply it by ten.  There is your silver price.  I’m not expecting this to work out that exact, but there is your trend.  It will actually go up far higher as oil runs out ( no more mining possible due to the funding and machinery needed ).
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And let us not forget banker manipulation by derivatives.  The big players are selling 200 paper to one physical, minimum.  On purpose.  They are themselves buying physical with the profits.  The customers holding paper silver end up with zero, the bankers ( I believe it is JP Morgan who leads in this ) have millions of ounces physical that is suddenly worth hundreds of times the current manipulated low price.  All the details or timing is unknown.  But I’d bet on the trend.  Even just ten ounces of silver bullion right now pays off the house.
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Not that you SHOULD pay off the house.  Overpriced and vulnerable to the grid’s fate.  Kuntsler warned you twenty some odd years ago and the trend is as strong as ever.  And not that you might even be able to sell any silver.  But that is ignoring the trend by making excuses.  So what if you can’t sell it, you greedy hump.  Give it to your grandkids.  They will then be able to buy houses for the whole tribe, plus slaves and war brides.  Off ONE ounce of silver.  Embrace the trend.  Then you need not worry about the journey.
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Since I made up my mind to never be in debt for a home, back in the early 80’s, I magically avoided that bubble.  At the same time I determined collage was a rip off and retarded.  I somehow avoided the life crippling debt and exposure to PC asswhores.  Hell, I completely bypassed those trends, just by seeing the trend everyone was out to screw me.  Don’t even begin to think I’m all that great at seeing the future.  I only am to the degree I see trends in general, and then extrapolate Worst Case on them.
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A HUGE trend is exactly what we are talking about here, every year waking up and suddenly…  Nothing goes as you expect.  Who knew it would be more important to collect guns than rescuing people, during Katrina?  But if you had been heeding the trends ( Blacks hate you and want to kill you and the elite want to help them, to counter any White Revolution [ get it?  White, as in race AND the other side of the Bolshevik insurrection ] ), you wouldn’t be living near a Black Reservation and it wouldn’t have affected you.
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That is ignoring the specifics and favoring the trends.  Not to the point of being unable to strategize ( you still need to figure out the future of gun control.  My guess is food control to force “voluntary” compliance ), just to the point of being able to see with clarity after you minimize the stress and emotional panic.  Okay, the other day I said in the comments, “one day you will wake up and the option to stockpile will be gone”.  Or something similar.  Hell, I was so impressed with myself I made a note that led to these articles.
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Identifying the trend tells you that you CANNOT identify specifics or timing.  That is why everything is a rush now, to get ready.  The only thing we know is that we don’t know crap.  Except, this sucker is going down ( and not in a good way ).  Everything flows from there.  If you accept that the straw on the camel is piled one at a time, rather than magically appears all at once, you can accept the worst along the way.  As in, I can’t stay employed the entire way of the journey through decline to collapse.
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As in, there will be out of control fires and riots where I’m living right now, and it is too early in the decline ( not YET the collapse ) to engage in open firefights ( in other words, you cannot be effective by going offensive and must remain defensive ).  As in, gas rationing grounds everyone but the government, because the collapse isn’t here YET, and travel restrictions imposed, and you can’t get to your retreat as you planned.  As in, the government combating you lasts longer than your food supplies.
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Planning for the worst doesn’t mean planning for the worst.  It means planning for Almost The Worst far longer than you thought was possible.  That is what I mean by you losing your job now, and then still being in a high tax fiat currency high inflation economy, soon to deny welfare to Whites.  You run out of resources during the decline but before the collapse.  That is the kind of Worse Than Can Happen you have to assume.  You need to live through the economic collapse prior to the civilization collapse.  The consumer economy fails before the collapse ( oops!  No Chinese imports ).
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That will seem like an overnight occurrence, but it is just a long trend.  You woke up and suddenly…
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

Night Of The Comet re-Review ( post 2 of 2 today )

[ post 2 of 2 today ]
Following is my original review from my book on Post Apocalypse movies ( in the book BBBno7 ).  After that, I'll update that review as I just watched this movie again twelve years later ( it is on Amazon Prime ).
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NIGHT OF THE COMET
Rated NR, 1984
Catherine Mary Stewart, Kelli Maroney
I wasn’t sure about watching this, but they did promise widespread death and Eighties hair and music. I didn’t expect too much but I still walked away disappointed. This was simply too bad of a movie. Oh, it wasn’t bad compared to TV movies. But not up to theatre movie quality, even considering a lot of low budget competition. Nothing really happened, and what did had “low quality” stamped all over it. The acting was mediocre, the music was crap, the story was marginal and the pacing was nap inspiring. It looked like everybody tried pretty hard, but nothing really meshed. What should have been a bad story saved by a sense of fun was just a bad story. It was a good idea. A comet only seen once before 65 million years ago when it wiped out the dinosaurs comes to Earth.
The tail end of it kills everyone ( we are assuming magic space dust here ) except those in metal structures ( semi trailer, garden shed, movie projector room ). Those partially exposed turned into zombies instead of dying outright. Then, evil scientist dudes need to round up the survivors and drain their blood to keep themselves alive.
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Now, few zombie flicks make much sense scientifically because they are, after all, about zombies. You do need to suspend disbelief about certain aspects of it. Yet, even in the zombie film universe, this story made no sense. How is it that the scientists in their underground lair are exposed to zombie dust? They are in a steel structure so the comet rays don’t effect them, just like the three civilian survivors that the story focuses on. But they are slowly turning into zombies because they left the ventilation system on without filtering the air. Yet, why didn’t the civilians have the same problems? They only had metal structures shielding them, with free air flow. See what I mean? And the rest of the story was pretty slow moving. Essentially, comet hits, they figure out they are alone.
They go to the mall to shop ( yeah, we get it, consumerism is bad as pointed out in Dawn Of The Dead ), fight off stock boy zombies, scientists find them to drain their blood. A Mexican Cowboy they are both drooling over as the last non zombie man alive comes to the rescue ( even though the non cheerleader character is portrayed as super-fem ). The end. But even though the movie was a mere hour and a half it seemed to take forever to get there. A campy cult classic, they say. I say, another turd to avoid.
*Genre Rating-terrible. The electricity stayed on, very few hungry zombies tried to eat them, no sense of disaster, no panic.
*Nudity Rating-bad. Only a few cleavage shots.
*Overall Rating-not bad if judged as a made-for-television movie, avoid otherwise.
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Okay, I was REALLY too harsh on this the first time around.  Yes, it was one of the worst apocalypse movies.  BUT.  As a regular movie, with zero expectations of a PA genre film, it was actually not too bad at all.  If viewed as simply an '80's movie, it has charm and nostalgia.  The music isn't as bad as I remember.  Neither was the acting.  Obviously, I allowed myself to view the entire thing with hostility once I found out it wasn't an apocalypse film.  I overreacted, slightly.  I wasn't in a good mood viewing this the first time and missed the fact the thing wasn't trying to be serious at all.  Watching it a second time I got the carefree fun.  I hadn't realized how low budget this thing actually was, and viewed in that light it was very well crafted for the results you see.  So, my apologies.
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and then there was none 1 of 2 ( post 1 of 2 today )


AND THEN THERE WAS NONE ( post 1 of 2 today )
Reflecting back, there does seem to be a reoccurring element of suddenly waking up each morning and realizing crap suddenly changed.  Not to suggest that changes are overnight, because they are long term trends.  Rather, I’m saying that after a long time, the scale being slowly loaded suddenly tips to one side.  Or, perhaps better yet, think of it as the avalanche that consists of innocent weightless flakes of snow, accumulating from nothing to a sudden natural disaster.  All through the new millennia, you could see the trend in the housing bubble.  But it was overnight your house suddenly went underwater.
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The avalanche is sudden, but it took awhile to get there.  This is what I’m speaking of with the Waterfall Collapse.  Half the preppers out there think reality is All Normal, All The Time, until suddenly a Zeus like deity unleashes a thunderbolt of calamity.  Then the other half think we all face Forever Incremental Decline, without any particularly bad thing ever happening except another tiny cut.  You know what happens with A Death By A Thousand Cuts?  Without warning, one more drop of blood is lost which is one drop too many, and you die.
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“The straw that broke the camel’s back” is how declines get to a collapse.  You cannot keep loading straws on top indefinitely ( as the Stair Steppers pretend ), and you don’t get a broke camel by a load of straw suddenly falling on it ( as the “all normal until an overnight collapse” advocates pretend ).  One set pretend bad things never happen, the other set pretend bad things only happen occasionally and probably not in their lifetimes.  Both sides are delusional deniers that they shall ever have to stop snorting optimism through a deviated septum.
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Overnight collapses don’t actually happen, but they do appear that way.  The Yellow Vest’ers in France APPEAR to have suddenly began rioting, which if they are lucky will lead to a largely bloodless revolution defeating globalists, but there were decades of tax increases with benefit reductions and increased immigration and other issues behind it ( I currently wear a yellow vest while biking.  Luckily, I also have some orange ones in case I need to go undercover if the movement spreads here ).  But how do you tell WHICH “overnight collapses” are feasible and which are not?
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Look at most apocalypse fiction.  North Korea is angered at us and nukes us with an EMP and it is all over.  Why?  Why would North Korea use their nukes?  The US doesn’t invade countries with nuclear weapons or without oil.  The Norks know this.  Or, the UN suddenly decides to comply with Evil Leftists and sends in Blue Helmets.  Why?  There is zero reason to throw away the small army it has on such a foolish gesture.  And this ignores that the Right is just as evil as the Left.  Communist or fascist, a dictatorship either way.  You must always ask, why?
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No one saw the Yellow Vest riots coming.  Because Whites had humbly agreed to have the globalists loot their country and culture so far, it was assumed they would always act thus.  Because gun owners have been the world’s biggest pussies so far to date,  all the politicians that graduated from Dumb Ass University feel they can easily speak of using nuclear weapons on any group refusing to comply to the Big Gun Grab.  Just like the French Political Hooers felt they could keep spitting on the voters and rubbing their faces in their poverty.
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So, why can you figure that White People Problems will become real one day, but UN Peacekeeper Occupations are never going to really happen?  Trends.  There is no trend of nations attacking the US, militarily.  But there are trends of the poor revolting against regime’s that endanger their lives.  China isn’t going to attack us through cyberwarfare.  If we attack her, even though that is rather unlikely with her nuclear deterrent, sure.  But not before.  That is what pundits who call every single straw the one that will break the camel’s back say.  Because the only trend they see is ‘Murica Greatness, they  think ANY sign of Not Great is the Final Straw.
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We know that the PetroDollar will end.  That is the solid trend.  Yet we are all going to be surprised when it happens.  Not because it isn’t obvious but because we have no way of knowing what triggers the avalanche.  Most folks of course will do nothing, wanting to believe that they can beat the trend with death.  Which is another trend.  Survivalists are mostly forged from the ‘70’s CrapStorm.  We are a bunch of old humpers.  The trend is you can’t survive the collapse, because of age.
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One day you can still scamper, if barely, from cover to cover ( even if you had to lighten up your arsenal so as to be able to carry it ), and the next all you can do is shuffle.  But I won’t belabor that one as it is to be a chapter in the hermitage book.  Some trends are set in stone, is my point.  Just keep an eye on the trend. Don’t focus on each individual snowflake or piece of straw.  Don’t waste time or energy on it, after you have identified it as reinforcing the trend.
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And don’t buy into the shrieks and dismay that every straw proves we are all going to die, tomorrow.  Fear mongering is great for motivation, if it is disciplined.  Not so great if your response is too emotional.  Do you know what I do when the Dow Jones suddenly drops in cataclysmic fashion?  Nothing.  I could care less.  I’m as fully prepped for economic collapse as I can be, so I ignore the noise of “experts”.  Especially “survivalist gurus”.  All their warnings are based on all the straw falling all at once on the camel’s back. 
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We are to believe that overnight, the bankers control of the markets are erased, and that individual investors ( as opposed to institutional ones such as state pension funds ) are once again running them.  That is the equivalent of assuming Mad Men Control The Nukes.  The trend is misidentified.  The economy is debt, it isn’t chits from the gambling room.  Something will trigger the economic collapse.  Nobody is going to be correct about what, except in a generalized manner.  The best bet is to simply NOT be as vulnerable to the economy.  No debt and a job as a source ONLY for Mad Money is a good start.
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I’m not saying you can avoid all consequences.  You can only minimize them.  But far better that than continuing to bet that last snowflake won’t cause the avalanche.  Which is what your bet is, if you are in debt and need that job.  Again, yes, everyone needs a job.  They need income.  But you need to have a job you don’t need.  If you cannot afford to have a period of unemployment, you are far too dependent on that job.  A job is like a wife.  If you can’t walk away, you are not in control. 
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I feel like I can blather some more on this tomorrow.
( .Y. )
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note: The Golden Jackass is usually really good.  I don't know if this issue is even better, or I am just pondering all the economic news and wondering if it is real this time, hence making this article more useful than usual.  Here .
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note: free books. YA Zombie here .  Not at all PA, but rather honoring my dislike for Christmas ( Happy Festivus! ), a holiday horror here .
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

21st century mosin 2


21st CENTURY MOSIN 2
Remember, even the poorest person deserves to defend themselves.  All those monkey meat mouthers that banned Saturday Night Specials are directly responsible for killing off poor Black ghetto residents.  If the politicians playing Lucifer’s Proctologist hadn’t banned Chinese military arms from entering this country, I’m going to guess a SKS would be about $200 right now, with an AK half again as much.  Were they vile pieces of crap?  Of course they were.  That certainly is NOT the point.  The point is that they would have lasted long enough to get the job done.  They weren’t going to be used on a campaign.
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The Chinese SKS was crap.  Anyone buying one today, even if they are half the price of Eastern European ones, needs to seriously rethink what else he can get for the same money. A $289 AR-15 is also going to be a piece of crap.  Too many parts are proprietary rather than Mil-Spec, and you are looking at corners cut on every part.  The old $79 Mosin-Nagant was a piece of crap.  They had no gas bleed and they were only good in the Arctic because the bolt was just as “easy” to work there as in the tropics ( “easy” meaning “slow and difficult” ).
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But that is NOT the point.  A cheap Chinese SKS, a Mosin-Nagant and a sub-$300 AR are all Butter Knife Guns.  You just need to use them long enough to get a superior weapon from the enemy ( so named from the urban myth of the ghetto paramilitary forces being given sharpened butter knives to go kill a Honky-Mo-Fo for a real weapon ).  A zip-gun, a Saturday Night Special and a Butter Knife Gun are all worthless RELATIVELY speaking.  But they are a means to an end.
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That is why they must be made illegal.  Or, if that isn’t possible, so expensive a poor person cannot afford it.  Which is why you should be looking at buying your Generic Glock or any AR now.  They are both too cheap for comfort for our elite rulers.  Good gravy, a $200 9mm handgun?  Blood will flow on the streets!  The problem isn’t that an AR is semi-automatic, the problem is that it is too cheap.  Guns being legal aren’t going to do too many people any favors if they are so expensive that only a few can afford them. 
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So, if all you can afford is a hunk of crap AR, buy it anyway.  Then, don’t be a dumbass.  Don’t use it like it is a $1,000 version.  Don’t get too close and spray and pray.  Get the hell back three hundred yards, have a scope ( even if it is $20 https://amzn.to/2PiQ5mJ , just buy more than one as a back up ), and fire slowly.  Conserve ammo.  Don’t worry if it jams.  You aren’t so close as for that to be dangerous.  Adapt the tactics to your weapon, don’t buy the weapon that supports your idea of tactics.
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If you had a muzzleloader, the idea was to snipe at Indians from a hundred yards.  You tried to stay out of the thirty yard range of their bows, since they had rapid fire.  Get it?  A bolt action is fine.  Just stay out of situations that need semi-auto.  Or, if you might get in that situation against your plans, because of terrain, have a rapid fire pistol as back-up ( the weight savings of lack of extra rifle ammo and magazines allows the pistol, and you still come out weight savings positive ). 
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Be flexible with your tactics, rather than inflexible with your choice of weapon. You only have a one shot rimfire rifle ( click here ) that cost $120, and you add a $20 scope, you still have an ambush weapon.  The way I see it, most of the distain for cheap AR’s is in fact justified, BUT!  There will always be a bit of class warfare thrown in there.  The survivalist mindset for far too long has been “what is your life worth?”, which on the face is true but which hides a bit of Peacock Feathering. 
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In one way, the crappier your gun the safer you will be.  I’m not speaking of a craftsman with the best tool.  If you are practiced and talented, expensive tools pay. If you are a normal schlub with close to crap for fighting skills, expensive tools are not only a waste, they blind you to the fact that a tool is no better than its user.  The average shooter wastes a one inch MOA rifle through lack of skill.  Or a $1,000 AR-15.  AVERAGE, I reiterate.  The average talent with a crappy gun will NEVER mistake tool for talent.
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But the average shooter with too much gun will grant his inanimate object talisman powers.  He becomes complacent.  Well, obviously, the “too little’ers” have to be aware when their gun is crap, which the joke mentioned in yesterday’s post eludes to ( “they vowed worked as good as a quality build” ), so having a butter knife guns also requires self-awareness.  If I had a crappy little .25 caliber pot metal pistol, I would only use it within three feet and only expect one shot ( and I would prefer it to be to the back of the head ).
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Do I advise crappy guns?  No.  Sure, I own a Taurus, but I wouldn’t have bought something crappier.  I try for the “middlin” guns, the low end of acceptable quality, but not sub-quality.  The trick is to know the difference.  There are only a few truly awful AR’s.  Even just $50 can make a huge difference.  That one Sportsman’s was selling that had an UPPER of polymer?  WHAT?  Who would trust that?  I don’t want a poly lower, either, but if they are cheap enough they will do, barely.  With a middlin AR, the trick is just to operate with distance as your friend.  Same as with a bolt gun.
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Usually, those that ask, “what is your life worth”, are One Trick Ponies.  They think guns are Job One.  They focus far too much on weapons.  When you see Food Is First, you know how important it is to spend less on guns and more on food.  Because a crappy gun and lots of food gives you a better chance than a perfect gun and too little food.  That this is so obvious, and yet obviously ignored by most “survivalists”, is amazing to me.  It tells me they don’t REALLY believe in a collapse.
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They believe in fairy tales of glittery unicorns, used as pack mules to transport semi-auto weapons and lots of ammunition.  With an MRE thrown on top to reward yourself after the days multiple firefights.  Don’t mistreat unicorns like that!  Bad Minion!  I’d say, “no biscuit for you”, but that would imply you thought food was important.  And, no, I don’t mean to imply you shouldn’t strive for the best weapon.  I just want you to prioritize.  Better Than Nothing weapons, lots of food, more ammunition, a lot more food, THEN, then you can go crazy on expensive guns.
( .Y. )
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note: KU books.  I didn't care for the style, but all subjects are broken down in short snippits.  Guerrilla war here .  An interesting take on non-Yuppie homesteading, family moves to the wilds of northern California in the sixties here .
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note: for what it is worth, after viewing a video.  Disposable battery cost effectiveness.  Yes, I know, only for non-critical, heavy short term use items.  Panasonic might only get one quarter the time in use compared to high end name brand, but is the second best run time per dollar.  Sunbeam is the best.  Both at the dollar store.  If memory serves it was 6cents an hour Sunbeam, 9cents Panasonic, and the premium brands started at about 18cents an hour cost.  So, Energizer for the FLIR scope and Sunbeam for the TV remote.
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note: I'm not trying to replace the Free Books with the KU Books. I haven't even decided if I'll keep KU at the end of the trial.  There just hasn't been all that many PA books offered for free lately.  Hang in there.
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