April Article- Newer Relocation Guide

Published ten months ago in my periodical ( subscription info at the end of the article )

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NEWER RELOCATION GUIDE

I would like to thank Jack Spirko of The Survival Podcast for this one, which I directly stole. It wasn't even his subject that gave me a related idea, but a straight up theft of his idea. He suggested that you could use the Corona restrictions as a good Strategic Relocation Guide. In other words, the states that had the least restrictions would be the best places to go. And that was it, just a few sentences presenting the core idea. He didn't elaborate past that, so I feel that I can ( this assumes he didn't return to flesh out the idea at a later date. If he did, I'm unaware ).

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I thought this was a really good idea, in its simplicity and its effectiveness, but as you know, being contrary in all things, I couldn't agree with its implementation as most people would see it. Most would look at South Dakota, Florida and Texas and say, well, those three states were the least restrictive so I will move there. Unfortunately, EVERYBODY is saying that, so every swinging dingus will get into a food fight and try to get the last U-Haul and move to those three states. You do NOT want to be part of that lemming horde ( fun filled fact-in 1980 Kurt Saxon mentioned voting with a U-Haul. I was just surfing through his old Survivalist magazines. I want to say in #5, but I'm going by fading memory. We are on the shoulders of giants ).

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I also want to add in, it wasn't JUST what the government said or did, you also want a clear idea of how the citizens treated each other over the restrictions. Mercy on you soul if you move to a red-ish area but you are knee deep in Karen's. That will be a little harder to research, so you need Boots On The Ground reports. Needless to say, I'll cover that, but after the migration patterns.

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I would NOT advise moving to Texas. Florida has caveats and if you choose South Dakota, make sure what you are getting into with the failing fracking industry ( I'm not sure who it was, North or South, that had the lions share of production. But like Oklahoma after the 80's, that state will have its funding decimated and the economy sucking butt, hard, while oil production flees. Taxes will shoot up as services suffer. Like the rest of us, but worse and faster ).

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Everyone wants to go to Texas, but she is NOT the Uber red bastion you think. It is a once great conservative location turned purple ( like Nevada ). I don't think you have to worry about it going all the way Blue, but it ain't no Red as far as politics. Its freedom is more myth than reality. You have a border crisis, always translating into drugs and criminal activity, and you have everyone else moving there jacking up prices. If all that is okay with you, fine. This is most likely the last move for any of us, though. I just want you more aware of this decision being longer lasting.

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If you are in a deep Blue state, Texas might still be your dream location. With all the issues of Nevada, I wouldn't care to move to any other place. We actually had a very good non-compliance rate the second half of Corona here in the Elko area, giving me hope that the event loosened state influence over local areas. Because Corona SHOULD have clearly highlighted both good and bad in an area. If the counties were just going along with the state, but not meaning it, they showed their true colors last year. So a win for my local area, and almost the entire rest of the state. Even Reno redeemed herself a bit, in my eyes, not going Full Blue Retard as Las Vegas eagerly did.

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Corona showed Californians and New Yorkers their future, and it looks pretty bad. If you thought your location blew monkey balls before, that was just a warm up ( I understand other states equally sucked, such as Oregon. You know, The Usual Suspects ). But, where are those two populations moving to? That's a gold star there, Skippy. Florida and Texas. It was bad enough living in a Red state that saw a lot of 1990's Californians move there. Those were the Not As Bad Liberals moving. Care to guess how much MORE communistic they are going to be in this batch? But even if that is overblown, you are looking at a hot real estate market.

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What do you do in a hot market? You SELL, not buy. Okay, you could sell, then move to another location in the same state and buy cheaper and be in a less populated area, but generally I'd say to avoid the areas everyone wants to move to, as a financial general guide. If everyone is doing something, it MIGHT be smart, but you still pay the price of panicking late rather than early. South Dakota is probably chock a block full of tiny 100 population towns in farm country, sold cheap, but make sure of your winter survivability there, grid down.

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I didn't like Florida for many reasons, although that is not to say it doesn't have potential survival wise. But I want to warn you economically. Texas has an economy largely based on oil. Fracking oil, now. Florida has an economy based on Disney World and Social Security. You can already kiss Texas' economy good bye, post fracking, and you are stuck there thinking you were in a Less Worse economic collapse area. Perhaps even in debt. Beware the same issue in Florida. Tourism is sure to suffer unless China copies 80's Japan in that industry.

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And while Social Security SHOULD be the last to fail, you cannot guarantee that. Again, no, you are NOT moving to a guaranteed state economy that is viable. No ones economy is going to survive post Corona and post Peak Oil, and you shouldn't expect it to unless you are an over optimistic unicorn glitter land dweller. What I'm saying is that do not move there expecting the economy to last on your schedule. The collapse has its own idea of timing and I think you should all have already been pouring an adult libation and toasting the fact you had an extra ten years of prepping.

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And don't think I don't hear your innermost thoughts ( besides lusting after my hair ). You are thinking, well, gee, we survived Black Monday in 1987, we survived the Asian Contagion in the 90's, we survived The Tech Wreck ( okay, I finally get it twenty years late. The Y2K scare was government propaganda for throwing extra money at the tech sector to try to bail it out ). We barely survived the Housing Bubble, but we managed it at the mere cost of lots of inflation, kicking out lower economic tier home owners back into the renting pool and lots and gobs and oodles of institutional debt. So, gee, perhaps we will survive the Corona Economy.

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Okay, I get it. You would actually be excused for thinking that way, because every single time the Doomers insisted we were all going to die, we didn't. The US has been on boom and bust cycles for about 150 years ( bank meddling and the Industrial Age go together like salt and pepper ). Why can't this time be The Same? You mean, other than Colonies, Commodities, Currency and Crude? Industrial Ages need Colonies for affordable Commodities ( and Customers ), accepting our Currency issued by a Central bank and relying on Carbon fuels, mostly Crude, for affordable fuel. That is a lot of Cee's, and every single one of them is failing, because Corona ( hey, another C ).

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But, that is my story. Perhaps you feel lucky ( do you, punk? ), and you want to assume a mortgage after you move to your new Redder, more Conservative sanctuary that as a bonus has the Best Economy Ever because of free markets or whatever myth is convincing the worker drones to become debt slaves. Now, I know this is a lot of pressure on you. You need a Anti-Corona state filled with more Konservatives than Karen's ( perhaps not in sheer numbers, but in widespread dispersion ). You need to find a home you can buy from equity or savings rather than debt. You need to find a job in 50% unemployment.

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Sucks to be you, moving? Of course it does. When HASN'T it sucked to downgrade the American Dream? That is at least, minimum, a fifty year old trend. When did that NOT suck? You had to move from the industrial belt to the sun belt, from Union to retail. You had to move to the urban suburbs from small towns as all the mom & pop's closed and Warehouse Stores took over. You had to go from living near work to adding 20% to your work day from commutes. Cars went from nice to have, modern, luxurious to absolutely necessary.

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Jobs went from Worth Working to Half The Purchasing Power in one generation. Work went from manual and then working into supervision for the last half of your working life to bitches taking over management so you had to retire twenty years earlier than before, and that didn't give you enough time after kids to become independent enough for that ( this on top of being at the mercy of Bitches Lib Divorce Court, crapping on whatever you would have had left to retire on ). Work went from White Tribal to White Male Minority working the crap jobs left over from Diversity Hires. All your life it has sucked to be you, working. This time is only differs in details.

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If it was me, and I just sold a house, I'd take the equity and buy a home in a depressed area, one that can be subdivided into small apartments, and a hunk of junk land. I'd rent out to a friend or church member as I lived on the junk land, as they lived there cheap while you worked on both. You have income, both small town and hermitage land and you are not in debt. And I don't think you can do that in Florida or Texas if real estate prices are exploding ( perhaps you could, I have no idea. My land searches were sixteen years ago ).

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If you have no home, I'd find a way to avoid the last month or two of rent and buy junk land, the last of the money going into the gas tank to get me there. If you cannot find a cheap RV, and don't want to pay the lumber costs, I would look up “hexa-yurt” and build a dome out of rigid board insulation until I could find a better solution ( I have been told the connectors to build your own dome are on a waiting list. I don't know if you could ferrocement your hexa-yurt ). Or, perhaps you can find a junked van to bury ( with ferrocement and proper rust proofing ). You don't need sheets of plywood if you use cardboard and ferrocement.

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The old timey Redneck Way of building underground while dirt poor was to dig a ditch around a small hill ( or, dig a ditch and throw the dirt up into a hill ) and then place wire mesh down the trench and then over the hill. Now add cement ( and a doorway under the hill ). You've built a dome without lumber. Now remove all the dirt from under the cement. Most of us older folk might not be up to that, but it is an option while lumber went from $300 for a six sided 8x8 lumber cube to $1300, and RV's are selling for a premium as everyone bails the Blue cities.

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( If you only add an inch or two of dirt on top for camouflage, and the rigid board repurposed for roof insulation, you could get by without much cement, just ferrocement. From all reports of folks using that, such as JUST chicken wire in one layer and a thin layer of cement re-roofing an old roof that had rotted from the Florida weather, that stuff is as strong as can be. Don't be stupid adding weight to it, but don't think you need six inch poured walls or roof either )

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If you think you need a nice house and a nice job and a perfect freedom loving state, you are shooting too high. You are playing the moron, not on TV but in real time. You don't get to be Yuppie Scum during an economic collapse. Make a list ( or, if suitably Nerd-I'll try not to make fun but no guarantees- a spread sheet ) of the Less Corona Restrictions states, a list of gun control states, the list of unemployment by states, the worst property tax states ( Texas is pretty high- nothing in life is free and if you aren't paying income tax you are paying a high tax elsewhere ) and the worst zoning regulation, shake or stir, and find the Least Worst Choice.

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And add in your X Factor. In my case, in this article, that would be “Too Popular”. With Texas and Florida it might be “Too Much Immigration” as well. Anyone that says “State X Is The Best” is only talking about personal preference. You'll note two strangely contradictory facts. One, Jim is the mostest studliest survivalist ever, and two, nobody thinks Nevada is a good survival retreat. Yet here I am. What does that tell you? No, not that I am wrong. It tells you that you shouldn't follow Best Of Lists, because they do not allow for your personal situation. At the time, I really needed to move to a No Income Tax state, because I was sucking hind tit with the child support payments. Now, no income, I need LESS property tax. No list of Best Survivalist State would have accounted for that.

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Have you ever been to Texas? Florida? I lived in both. Texas is its own country. I could not relate culturally. But the big issue was that the weather there is simply a little slice of Hell. I don't think any other state is so big and has the crappiest weather ever of any place on Earth or epoch in every single one of its regions. It is simply amazing. Let me just suggest that if most of her settlers were German, you might begin to understand what special brand of retard wants to live in Texas ( I'm half German, by the way ).

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Florida is a swamp. Not only is it a swamp, it is a swamp full of violently angry Negro's and other swarthy foreigners, or perhaps even worse, retired New Yorkers or New Jersians. The only claim to fame Floridians have is staying drunk in Key West, or not having to worry about freezing to death. I'm sorry, I know I'm a mutant, but any place you cannot grow potatoes is no place I want to live. Even without unwanted neighbors. And at the very least, check the cost of hurricane insurance before you assume you can afford to live there. Mine jacked up considerably, and was prior to the years of massive hurricane hits, prior to the real estate bubble, and in one of the areas LEAST impacted through history by that natural disaster.

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As far as the kind of culture you will find in your new location, that is difficult. Culture anymore can be like micro-climates. Hard to pinpoint without being there. All you can do is research the history of who immigrated there and if extremely lucky know someone who lived there. I didn't know until recently that most California settlers originally were from Puritan Yankee Scum. That explains the hideous communism along side half the country filled with far more conservatives types ( rugged cowboys being the myth if rarely the reality ). I thought Oklahoma was settled after the Civil War, but the folks there, at least in the east, are more Down Home Southern than anyone I ever met in Florida.

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I got a pretty crappy reception in Wyoming, across the board hostility, and am amazed at the contrary reports. Louisiana had such a creepy Southern Comfort vibe I got right back on another Greyhound bus that same day. And that was after many times in various decrepit downtown Greyhound terminals. Culture is hard to pinpoint never living somewhere, and you don't have time to move to a bunch of different places. Even in an RV and retired, I submit to you that if ever there was a time to move your bowels or get off the commode, this is it, right here and right now.

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Time is short, if you have any belief at all that western civilization is already collapsing, with the US perhaps only behind the UK in how far along we have come in destroying ourselves ( Britain, being controlled by the US if they were to be bailed out from their own imperial collapse, was surely given its walking papers to go Full Retard Politically Correct, almost as if the message was “we were founded by Englishmen, now look at how nicely progressive they became, so American's can as well”. It could be worse, the dumb asses could have picked that road to ruin themselves ).

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So, this is where Corona Restrictions come into play, the shortcut to your cultural guide. If a people fought off the worst of the Corona Lock Downs, perhaps they can then be potential tribesmen. No guarantee, but it is a quick and dirty shuffling of the cards as to where you want to relocate to. Since you don't have time to sniff it all out in person. Just don't take too much of a shortcut, lining up a half dozen states on the top of the list and throw a dart at the map. You are using Corona as a relocation guide, but after that you must add in all other considerations ( I would say, be careful giving too much weight to just one. For instance, I chose Nevada for very conservative gun laws, and since moving here they went from Red to Purple. Same with taxes ).

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Corona Restrictions are just the first gathering of possibilities, substitution for Culture Knowledge of the area. Then factor in everything else. This makes sense in that I kept telling you previously to pick a spot FIRST on culture. YOUR culture, not the culture of those writing these Best Survivalist Retreat lists ( and that includes my list. Most of you would hate Nevada. Primarily I love it because I can stand these idiots here better than the idiots anywhere else ). Then, you picked the least worst spot of your culture with everything else like taxes and gun laws and cost of living.

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See, me and Spirko almost agree on something! Yes, that scares me. The next thing you know I'm buying BitCoin and looking forward to the US not collapsing because, well, because my advertisers wouldn't like that! ( I still love you, Jack. We can't all be me, so I don't take it personally ). But to give the devil his due, Corona Relocation Guide was a brilliant idea ( Spirko has a lot of great ideas, you just have to put up with his peculiarities. He is King of the Backwoods Home School of prepping, and recommended in spite of that ).

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March Article

 

GUN CONTROL MISDIRECTION

I think we all got played for suckers. Most of our attention was focused on federal gun control, and too few of us were looking at where all the gun control is happening, at the state level. Now, this is NOT a huge deal. It is just More Of The Same. I bring it up mostly because it is interesting to discuss, not because I'm issuing a Five Alarm Fire All Hands On Deck Warning, Warning Will Robinson. You all know which states are so obscenely foul about gun control they prohibit pellet guns, black powder guns and gun part kits to be mailed there. You know where it is pretty silly to move to ( and you are also aware any state can Turn Purple FAST, as fast as they can get Mexicans and Californians in there ).

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( Talking to you, Texas, and similar. Nevada was freer than you folks, and as soon as Vegas filled up with Blue scumbag whores, the state government flipped. We had a few Republican governors after that, but they were RINO's. All your big cities are turning Blue, so how long do you think it is going to take for the state to follow? We had Dingus All for gun control, then they had a False Flag massacre and in just a few years it all went to crap. The only good part of that is that it will be a target rich environment come Boogaloo. You'all better hope the California exodus doesn't include you. Nevada fell off their list once they screwed up the real estate here )

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A lot of folks probably dismiss federal gun control. I sure did, if only prior to the last election. I was telling you that Trump passed more gun control than Obammy ever did ( and those Red Flag laws he allowed to pass at the state level are nothing to sneeze at, I'll remind you, in case you only remember the stupid ban on that rapid fire device the name which escapes my memory. Now, I don't know IF the feds will pass serious gun control laws. I know it barely matters, because you cannot buy what they might ban anyway. Well, it always matters, Second Amendment and such, but I trust you take my meaning.

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I mean EFFECTIVELY, it doesn't matter as much, at least right now. I see it as a waste of time and energy to worry about it when you need to stock up on everything EXCEPT guns. Six months of food? WhatTheHolyCrappingHump! Wally is still selling 25 lb sacks of white flour for like $5.25. And the shelves here locally, days after the huge miners payday mad stock-up, are chock full of them. My store had 200 pounds in stock, JUST in the big much cheaper bags ( 29 cents a pound small bag, 21 cents a pound large bag ).

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READ THIS! ( Krogers remains much higher priced, and that fact plus at the time Wally having about zero flour prompted my previous Red Alert Flour Warning. I stick by that, but note a seeming reprieve ) READ THIS!

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For every $6 you spend, not counting storage container cost, you get another month of food per person. If you cannot eat flour, store it anyway to feed your dependents. If you don't care for flour, and prefer rice, go ahead and spend twice the price. No skin off of my ass. But you had better have a lot more food than you do now, I can guar-an-damn-tee you a jelly filled donut. If you think Corona won't lead to collapse, who cares? Food storage is an insurance policy, and you are NOT buying what you can use as much as buying soft nightmare-less dreams. I don't stress about starving anymore, even if I cannot stop buying too much food every week.

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You know how I justify that? Inflation. Every week I'm buying what we normally eat every day. The only criteria is storage space and longevity. But I'll be Good Dog Damned if I idly stand by and watch prices escalate without doing something, even if it is a futile gesture. Again, with the sleeping soundly every night. Once you spend the extra money on apocalypse food ( daily food and collapse food being two different things. Daily stockpiling is ONLY buying on sale until everything is stockpiled, then you only buy again on sale, and your daily eating now costs 25-50% less. I shop at Wally whatever never goes on sale elsewhere ) you won't miss the money but will enjoy less stress.

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Money, you can always get more of. Until money won't get you nothing. But in the meantime, money is just a tool. Food is a tangible asset, and always trumps money. But you can use money to both secure the tangible, and money to invest so you need less money. But guns? They are necessary, but they do NOT rank above food. You can always salvage PVC pipe and make a bow, if you have no other weapon, or if your dumb ass used up all your ammo in an orgasmic explosion of semi-auto combat, but you cannot salvage food. That fantasy is only for nuclear war ( back during the Soviets days ) or zombies fiction. It has zero place in real life.

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As does last minute shopping, as if you will be the only one to figure out to make a food run while crap is starting to get spicy. Spicy Times are NOT coming. They are already here. What you are waiting for is the time things start going kinetic. Look, survival fiction is fine and dandy. It entertains, and it keeps you focused on the task at hand, and it is pretty good for War Gaming. The problem is when you start buying the authors bullcrap. Because anyone's life, even famous people to a degree, is boring as hell. Fiction must move along or it doesn't get read, and the author doesn't get paid. So embellishment and outright reality avoidance is the nature of the game.

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Only in fiction can you get enough food out of a garden to feed you and the whole tribe. Gardens are for tasty vitamin pills to spice up monotonous starch, NOT for calories ( rarely enough calories ). Only in fiction does everyone conveniently die off and leave you to salvage. Only in fiction do you either avoid most combat, or prevail in far too many firefights. When I rave about survivalist fiction, it is only when there is LESS of any of that fantasy crap ( No Blade Of Grass and Cannibal Reign are the two champs ).

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Okay, Jeez, that took a long wide detour. Tell you something you don't already know. Let's partially return with the myth of moving to a gun friendly state. As I said, I did, then after investing in land, I got screwed. So don't JUST make guns a criteria for where you are moving. ANY state, no matter how anti-Bill Of Rights, is livable with its current laws. Don't focus on the semi-auto's, cache most of what you have ( especially ammo ), and look at who your neighbors are, primarily. If you are out of Riot Zones, that is more important than those state gun laws.

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To a large degree, gun control at the federal level has stalled for some time. I think a lot of politicians now consider it a Third Rail Issue, untouchable. Sure, you have a lot of rabid socialists, but they talk about crap like transgender rights and Gore Warming. Most SANE politicians would rather not incur the wraith of gun owners ( and now there are millions more DEMOCRATIC gun owners, thanks to Negro Get Out Of Jail Free Cards issued last summer by the idiots who would have banned all guns, kitchen knives and Harsh Glances )

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To a large degree, and zero thanks to the Quisling NRA, gun owners are rabid enough to keep gun control SOMEWHAT in control on the federal level. And yeah, the NRA sucks worse than Schummer or Pelosi. Too much in salaries and perks go to their upper management to ever want to see LESS gun control, and so they are inherently gun control supporters. And even if they weren't, like the once helpful Red Cross, too much of the donations go to self perpetuating admin costs. Your dollars are much better spent by Gun Owners Of America, where almost all the money is spent in court battles.

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But here is the thing. Federal laws are NOT screwing us. State laws are, and as I've said before, that is intentional. We are being herded into reservations, and the shiny gold ticket is LESS gun control. Not only do we want to move to Red areas, the Blues want us to and do not care about Red no gun control. Their little slice of heaven is Evil Gun Free. And they can easily do it because the Supreme Court, no matter how full of Republicans, supports pure democracy, no representatives in states. One city, or a group of cities, controls the whole state. Reds get zero representation.

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The only reason whose red states haven't gone purple is because the reservations are not full. Blues want ALL reds on their own land, and compromising on Full Gun Control is an easy price for them to pay. Because it won't be their country anyway. I think it is beyond rude of you to stay living in a Blue state, when the elite want you to move. And will reward you with a partial restoration of your rights as a reward. Of course, yes, I did say that Red states can flip to Purple ( you must account for Red immigration, which counters Immigrant immigration, to see that most Red states will never flip to Blue, but rather Purple. Reds are cashing out and moving, but illegals don't have any jobs here to move to. Reds have real estate-a reverse Cali Cash Out, as it were- and they have pensions. So I'd bet on Purple rather than Blue ).

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Now, yes, we can be controlled by living in a reservation. In Reds case, food control. But the Blues are already under full commie control, so you aren't REALLY going from the pan into the fire. You are crawling out of the fire, even if you are still going to get burned. And yes, I understand a lot of you are stuck where you are. You can live comfortably where you are in Blueland, as the house is paid for and your pension doesn't cover a new mortgage. I don't care where you live, getting in debt to move is the wrong move.

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A modest amount of debt, buying a $3k lot of junk land and a $3k used trailer, that isn't the crazy debt I'm talking about. That is an investment, when an apartment rents at $1500 a month. I'm talking house bubble debt ( yes, we are in another real estate bubble. Sell NOW. The woods are disgorging legions of idiots paying any price for homes now, completely disregarding future employment viability ). I'm even talking about vehicle debt. Debt might be better than living next to the ghetto, but I would advise being smarter about it even as you must panic early and avoid the rush.

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What I'm saying is that no matter how bad gun laws are where you are, they are not the priority that location and finances are. But also that gun laws no matter where you are can get crazy stupid at any time for any reason because the states have gone completely loco with unConstitutional anti-Bill Of Rights legislation. And all your little butt buddy Republican Supreme Court Justices don't do anything about them. The same justices that refused to consider libraries worth of evidence that Biden was NOT fairly elected ( I don't blame Biden. He is a blended artichoke brain atop an ancient mummy. I blame all the asshats placing him there ).

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And there is another thing. We know, and we know not because we are smart but because the PTB rubbed it in our faces, that the election was rigged. Why do you think state and local elections are not? Because wishful thinking. You want to think voting still matters, so you assume that elections closer to home are fair. That is a BIG assumption. Voting doesn't matter. At all. Ever. Voting is the inmates electing a spokesman to interact with the warden. Guess what? The warden gets to do anything he wants, no matter who is the prisoner delegate. I know, I just told you the politicians at the federal level won't touch gun control.

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I think it is all an act. I think that the gun control fanatics are there for a dog and pony show. They scare everyone into focusing on the federal level. The state level gun control is reacted to with a simple, “oh, I'll just vote by U-Haul”. Well, guess what happens to that gun control free state? If too much money moves to that state, it quickly turns Blue ( or, at least Purple ). Money draws the bankers and corporations and those looking to buy cheaper housing ( and the ones who can afford to buy that are those from previous wealthy states, all of them Blue ). So there goes that Libertarian wet dream of Going Galt. Silly Rabbit, your money is Blue controlled.

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I don't think Californians ( or East Coast equally rabid Blues ) move out of Cali to escape gun laws. I think they move out in order to cash in their home equity. Once they move and buy another house, then they must protect the equity in the new location. And so the new location slowly turns into the old location, which was centralized government micromanaging everybody because oppressive laws protect home values. In other words, they turn the government into a Home Owners Association.

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Think about it. HOA's job, its ONLY job ( the power trip is just a bonus ), is to keep home values artificially adjusted. Mostly, that keeps out the riff raff who cannot afford the required maintenance ( and constant upgrade requirements are a good way to keep out rednecks who could fix it themselves ). Anything is permitted by a HOA to keep the house values high. High home costs keep out the Darkies and low end hillbillies. Because, let's be honest, that is where all the dangerous criminals come from ( high end criminals, those gaming the system, are not dangerous, except financially. And that is who lives in high class neighborhoods ).

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Except, you cannot sell high and buy low if you move to another HOA location. So, you cash in at the HOA for big bucks and move to a non-HOA location that is in a nice neighborhood without crime because all the working lower class form a NON-diverse cultural group. And once you arrive, you drive up real estate prices, driving out the working poor, and the bond they had. Now you are stuck with a home attracting crime because the criminals draw to money, moths to the flame. So what do you do? You get government to solve this problem.

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The old neighbors pretty much looked after each other, but the new richer ones are rich asswhores who are selfish and don't want to know each other, because bonding requires sacrifice, effort and a sharing of resources. Which is not in their DNA. They got paid by being selfish and stiffing the Newest Sucker on a piece of crap home vastly overpriced. Well, the old school government was funded appropriately to a lower earnings group, who mostly took care of their own law enforcement to a large degree. The government is in no shape to take on all the extra work ( requiring vast amounts of additional budgeting ) that the new arrivals need, so that begins the new growth phase of the government.

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The new people want more government to protect their investment, because more taxes are cheaper than HOA fees ( at least at first ). And the government wants more government not because they are fascist pigs or power hungry douche canoes ( at least not at first ), but because the old locals will be hired as the new government workers, which is both job security and better pay, and mostly they will earn more than the increased taxes charge. Everyone else already there are screwed, but then, it is a zero sum game and the losers don't get a real vote.

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The new arrivals never liked high taxes or gun control, but they liked cashing out home equity and the criminals being placed out of their way. They love the new locations low property taxes ( even when they double after all the new bankrolled arrivals ), and they love playing with their new guns, but they don't mind new gun control laws because it helps keep the criminals less well armed ( prices follow gun control, and the poor cannot afford nice guns ) AND, they are LESS control than where they just came from. And hence, how migration targeted communities turn from paradise to the same craphole the new people came from. NOT because politics but because of greed protecting home values.

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And yes, that makes YOU part of the problem. But don't act defensively. Don't deny what I'm saying because it hurts your snowflake feelings. You know I'm right, and I'm right because this is just human nature. It isn't a moral judgment. It is how our society is structured now that we have zero communities to belong to, with the First Mover Advantage. Whoever starts a trend benefits from a trend ( or, whoever is the first to take advantage of the trend ). I'll make that its own article one day, but just keep in mind everyone is jockeying for decreasing wealth, the race to eat the biggest slice of a diminishing pie, and no one is going to NOT play the game, mostly.

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I won't go TOO far into the weeds on this, at least relatively, but look at the War Of Northern Aggression and the South. The South was a financial powerhouse, prior to the Industrial Revolution transitioning land from wealth to a commodity. When food was wealth, land was wealth, but only in relation to the food it could grow ( to include non-food crops ). The North was held ransom financially and politically by the South. They had to submit to that control, and were understandably angry and resentful ( I will stipulate that the assbag Puritans deserved every bad thing they got, but I won't digress ).

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Today, the South is any area not yet colonized by Blue State homeowners. The North are those caged and controlled imperial citizens resentful of their place in a centralized NON democratic society. But the Northern citizens are well paid by the central bank to keep them under control. Some take their winnings and invade the South. The Southern citizens are resentful they lost their wealth and political control. Now, the only way the North went from controlled to New Controllers was a paradigm shift in what constituted wealth. Carbon fuels and factories full of immigrants trumped food and land. And the only way the New South ( we are the Reds, in case you weren't following me ) is ever going to turn the tables on their oppressors is when the paradigm flips BACK to land and food as wealth.

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We will NEVER win trying to retake control back of the system we were kicked out of. And part of the Old Order was individual sovereignty, which guns were the symbol of. Well, far more important than that firearm was the community behind the guns. The problem was, we missed the part where we were dismissed from the community, but kept our illusions because we had bought into the Rugged Individualist myth. We forgot each rugged individual was part of a group. Even in a primitive tribe where all males are warriors, and each warrior is equal, no warrior was equal to the group as a whole.

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First, the group was paramount. The difference between tribes and fascist nation states or oriental despot led groups is that in a tribe, the individual had an equal vote in how the group acted. Other political organizations also make the group more important than the individual, but then the one man had zero vote. And by vote I mean an actual vote which was part of consensus, not voting for the spokesman to the warden. Sovereigns equal under the law, but with no group, only think they are in control of their own destiny. But without the power of the group, it is an empty gesture.

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So, what am I saying? I'm trying to say that we cannot win under the current paradigm, no matter where you move to. What you are doing by moving is pre-staging yourself to the area soon to be under the post Oil Age new wealth arrangements. When land and food become the new and only wealth, once again. The homesteaders have the right idea, but if they never consider who their neighbors are and what they are ( Blue or Red ), if they take the sovereign route, they are already defeated and occupied, mere self training serfs.

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Okay, so, first you know you need to move, if you are behind enemy lines and there is no escape ( I live in Purple Nevada, but only the southern tip is really Blue. I still live in deep Red territory. That sucks as far as gun control, but I'm surrounded by my people, several hundred miles in all directions ). Don't JUST move to a gun friendly location. Move to where your culture is, as Red as you can make it, with the least chance of being Blue invaded-both politically now and literally post apocalypse as in easily defeated and occupied prime farm land- and keep an eye on future allies, NOT what guns you can own in the future as a lonely deserted surrounded sovereign household.

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Today, crew served weapons trump riflemen. Centralized food and fuel control trump riflemen. The Jews in Warsaw did not defeat a superior force ( for a time, at least until artillery was used to genocide the entire area. But at least they fought back and many escaped ) because they had the Assault Weapons of the day, semi-automatic weapons, pallets of ammunition, and certainly NOT night vision devices. They won with superior tactics and mostly really crappy guns to start with. And as you might remember me pointing out, a lot of them were eating beef anus as rations.

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Does wheat sound so bad, now? Anyway, man is a tool using animal, and we've done very well with those. Ask any endangered species. But his supreme tool is culture and social organization, NOT a superior weapon. Blue forces are currently holding all the cards. Financially, culturally, resources control, logistics and on and on. But you would do well to remember that mostest favorite thing I keep screeching at you about, Peak Oil. The problem with diminishing energy is NOT that you are screwed financially. That ship has already sailed, as Blue forces are in control and Reds are subjugated and colonized. A lot of you might refuse to accept that, but there it is.

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In case you were kind of confused, when your Breeder population is paid for by the enemy, and the bitches ally with the enemy because of that, demographically you have been defeated. After 55 years you are still in denial. Oh, sure, that trend will reverse, like real soon! Anyway, the problem with diminishing energy is that those whose wealth and control is founded on that energy are losing both, even as it looks like they are invincible and victorious. Stop focusing on fighting them for regaining control, because it is impossible but even if it wasn't, you would be winning a failing system.

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Stop thinking moving to a Red gun friendly state will allow you to have any part of the current paradigm of American Empire, Oil Age Empire, Oil Age Wealth or Oil Age protection. Moving there is ONLY about avoiding getting killed as paradigms change, NOT about preserving what is failing. And yes, a lot of rhetoric from Reds and Gun Owners is about just such a thing, keeping control you have already lost or at least not losing more. But its very nature, you MUST lose more, because oil supplies are wealth and power and the oil supply is contracting. You cannot change that mega trend. All else follows it. You can use your diminishing Oil Age wealth to invest in the next Agricultural Age, but NOT to hold on to transient wealth predicated on oil.

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This is where my biggest issue with homesteaders is. They believe that The Center Will Hold for thirty years, as they pay off a mortgage. They think crime is the only threat they will face ( I've yet to hear a conventional homesteader in the Backwoods Home vein believe anything will ever get worse than Great Depression levels. Not to say survivalists don't homestead. But it wouldn't be with debt, or by dangerous neighbors, or by assuming the ass isn't falling out of western civilization ). They think they will always be able to drive into town for supplies.

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And they think once they pick The Perfect Spot, it will freeze in time and never change. Well, they MIGHT actually be pretty close on that one, if we assume this is the last grasp of American Empire and things aren't going to continue to decline, but rather collapse. Then there isn't enough time to continue to see Blue forces take over the whole nation like the cancer they are. I assume I'm correct about Fracking Oil and Petrodollar Oil and Corona As Camouflage. If not, I'm going to look like a rather large idiot. Not that I'll mind, just as I never felt bad for panicking early in 2008 ( which was just a culmination of panic moves years prior to that ).

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For all of you that are in a poor location, but cannot move, well, don't feel TOO bad. Number one, you are probably old enough your natural lifespan is about up anyway. If you can just kill at least a half dozen Blues before you meet your maker, you will have done your part in strengthening the species and preserving our cultural of freedom. Number two, your location increases probabilities, it does NOT guarantee them. You might survive, staying smart and tough, where well equipped and perfectly located individuals roll a bad hand of the dice and are stupid or unlucky. And three, this ain't the North during the War Of Yankee Imperialism. There is going to be far more unsafe locations than safe, everywhere. Trouble will not respect state lines. You might be next to the one Blue hot spot, or in their line of retreat, in a solid Red area.

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And number four, none of us might even live long enough to get to the other side of the boogaloo. There will be a lot of wounded rabid animal thrashing about from the governments and other organizations, dangerous to everyone within reach. We could see severe winters without heat, famines without medicine, diasporas of whole groups, crop ready areas not producing sufficient substitutes to centralized farming, or being fought over, race wars, religious wars and every single negative human endeavor all in a very short time, everywhere.

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You had better believe Jim Morrison ( and not just because Jim's everywhere are smarter, have nicer hair and are far sexier than anyone else ) when he tells you that none of us here get out alive AND you might have the guns but they got the numbers. Hallelujah and amen. I hope by now you are already converted to the Church Of The Right Honorable Malthus, understand that General Murphy wins most wars, and pledge allegiance to King Darwin.

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HISTORICAL PRICING WITH GOLD

I had a minion send me a couple of Xerox copies of old timey book chapters. Essentially, hundred year old techniques for woodsmen. Think “Backwoodsman Magazine”, but in book form and written way back in the day. I have only marginal interest in that, but only because I chose the life of an academic over that outdoors. I practically lived outdoors as a kid, as we always lived near small town in the wilderness California. Almost always, you walked out the back door into the woods. It was a great childhood.

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Then I went “camping” in the military, but in more extreme climes, and my interest in being outdoors evaporated almost entirely. Then, later, living in an RV off grid, that was the most I ever wanted to rough it. Not to say I don't miss the outdoors. I do. I just chose another path. So what got my nipples hardening and sphincter clenching was mention of the prices of the authors outdoor gear. Seventy cents axes and $8 rifles. But then a thought hit me. Was this REALLY a good deal? If you priced in inflation, was this the great price you believe?

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I don't know WHY my thoughts were directed hence. This is just how my brain works. Some authors can envision a fantasy world, I pick out Apocalypse Pertinence everywhere. So, to begin, we take the Internet Inflation Calculator and we wipe our ass with it. Those use the OFFICIAL inflation rate. That is like asking the NOL what her boob size is after losing weight. Officially, it is still a D, although not a Double D. I have my doubts. I TOLD her I didn't want her to lose any of her Pleasant Plumpness, but she just HAD to get sick! The official size doesn't match my perceptions.

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Inflation figures have been gayed up almost from the beginning ( do you figure in the 40% inflation as gold was made illegal to hold, then the adjustment in the official gold price, mere months after FDR took power? Savior of the poor, my dimpled ass ). If you care, go visit that grandpa site that purports to give better figures with M3 money creation, without adjustments. I have my doubts even that is all that correct. I prefer the gold prices of the time and how much you can buy with those. You have to be careful, as it isn't a 1=1. Different eras had different gold values.

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You can't just say, a mans suit two hundred years ago and now are both an ounce of gold. Because few of us wear suits, DUH. I like the gold earned per month and matched to prices, myself. And I discount the era of Spanish colonies and gold. That was inflationary, a One Off Event. So was the gold rush of California, Canada, Oz and South Africa, BUT! Coal and oil production allowed industrial growth which was financed by the extra gold, so the price effects was far more stable. Then you had the end of gold currency, after WWI. Culminating in the US in the early Thirties outlawing citizens ownership.

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Then we didn't have much change in a stable dollar price system until the 1960's, leading to turmoil the next few decades but still, basically, a good indicator of prices. Until 1990, with the initial surge of ALL resources from the US winning the Cold War and colonizing most of the planet through globalization. Gold took a two decade break from being as scarce or expensive to mine, until a smidge after Global Peak Oil, and now we are back on track. And frighteningly, it shows we are WAY down in wages. Which isn't even as scary as it could be, since gold prices have been manipulated at least 150 years to more reflect banker control than purchasing power.

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But let's return to 1920, the era of the book chapters I read, and the prices presented. Seventy cents for an axe was when gold was about $20 an ounce. It was also, roughly, when you earned a dime an hour, or an ounce of silver a day, which was around one ounce of gold a month ( when the gold/silver peg was 1 to 20 ). That means, compared to today's average wage of a bit under an ounce of gold a month, your 1920 axe cost $54. Well, crap! That doesn't exactly seem like all that great of a bargain now, does it?

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And that $8 rifle ( not even a fancy top of the line rifle ) in today's gold price? $720. I bought middlin quality combat carbines for half that price, prior to the Corona Mass Firearm Panic ( well, if we avoid Political Correctness, we can call it the Great White Flight To The Gun Stores To Protect Themselves Against Looting And Rampaging Blacks Panic ). Now, I KNOW I'm not comparing Oranges To Oranges. Today we can only buy Apples. A century ago you were buying Swiss level quality from American manufacturers- Oranges. Today, only lower quality goods from anywhere, so Apples. A rifle then would hold up better than one now ( or, at least until the more corrosive ammo shortened its well crafted life ).

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If we adjusted over to like comparisons, I think prices would have been roughly equal. They appear to be half price but figure you'll need to buy two for the same use. And as for axes, even if you can buy a $15 one now, you'd probably need to buy nearly four to equal the old one, factoring in Chinese junk. So prices ARE the same. But we did embrace the 70's factory exit and the 90's Chinese Factories, for a very good reason. We couldn't afford to pay even more. Make all the noise you want about quality costs, the average-AVERAGE-worker is not paid enough to buy those.

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Why did we have better quality goods then, or in other words, workers were given more for their efforts? They had gotten LESS, fifty years prior. You cannot point to the Irish Influx, because the latter immigration wave was far larger ( the Jews, Italians, Eastern Europeans ). I contend that you merely look at the source of energy our economy used. Coal was a good enough substitute for wood ( although not great-hard woods and water power weren't too far behind. Coal was more a need as wood supplies were denuded ), and it did improve the velocity of the Industrial Era, but the energy delivered was dwarfed by oil.

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I know you all get tired of me yammering on about oil, but we are living in the Oil Age. If you lived in the Agricultural Age, you would always be talking about the weather and commodity prices and soil fertility. Oil Supply is EVERYTHING, not just “A” thing. Oil is how you eat and how you protect yourself, how you mate and how your kids are provided for. Excuse the holy living crap out of me for focusing on oil. If everyone contacts me and tells me they hate their children, I'll stop fretting about oil.

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The transition to oil from coal enriched everyone, even accounting for the massive waves of OtherColor immigrants of a century ago. The tide DID lift all boats ( especially compared to the previous decades where the Robber Barons did not share very well. If you accept my premise that coal didn't have enough energy, but oil did, that could actually explain the wealth inequality better than “greed” alone would. Although, I'll take “Yankee Vermin Scum War Spoils” as a close second ). It might not have lifted our boats as well, but it was still an improvement ( compare to now where immigration hurts far more ).

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( Germany and Japan were only partially oil powered, and far more from coal [ whereas Italy had neither and barely counted in the great scheme of things precisely for that reason ], but they didn't have a central bank or a Rich Humper class and had a far more national orientated leadership, even if it did enrich itself to some degree. This is why I believe National Socialism was far superior to Capitalism in the era we cover. Communism proved that you need an adequate social structure to accompany your resources, or you waste them all. Italy proved a great social organization only helped so much. The US did NOT prove the superiority of capitalism. It only proved capitalism was better than communism in delivering extra benefits from resources so than the rich could thrive along with society )

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( You'all need to stop with the political focus and the naive belief that leadership can trump resources. Resources ALWAYS get a say. And as our good buddy Tainter said [ and what made his book worth reading, this one major component of collapse ] great leadership cannot reverse the collapse, nor can poor leadership ruin a period of enrichment. We have been dwelt our hand in this poker game, and it doesn't look like we get to beat the house this time. What part of “baked into the cake” is presenting difficulty? The collapse trumps Trump. Sorry, Not Sorry )

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( Do I gain an indecent amount of pleasure from these events? Of course I do. I would be lying to say I'm all sad and stressed. Yes, of course the collapse is going to suck giant hairy monkey balls. Soonest Started, Soonest Done. If any society in the history of the world needed a Darwin cleansing and a kick in the ass, this wretched foul hunk of dung does )

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For a hundred years, oil obviously helped in extracting gold. The more man powered ore had been extracted during the Coal Age, so if we hadn't had oil we would have gotten a lot less gold out of the ground ( the century of oil powered gold extraction exceeded all of previous mining combined prior to that date ). But there was also a reason gold didn't matter as much this last century. The reason wasn't that England had to decouple from the gold backing because she needed more money to finance the Great War. Yes, she would have done so for that reason, but then the US did NOT assume the global financial currency with all of Europe's gold. Why?

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The US got into WWI not because of democracy. We got into the war because we now had a central bank, and the bank immediately upon creation ( almost as if, oh, I don't know, they had already been working behind the scenes prior to official founding ) started loaning oodles and gobs of money to England and France. Who then proceeded to fight the war as if they were all going to win the war. What was the war about? Colonial control and wealth ( England started the war to defend her shrinking economy against upstart Germany. You mine coal for a few centuries, yeah, then your economy based on coal gets into trouble ).

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If they won against Germany, they controlled the globes colonies ( don't forget, China was on the table along with Africa ). If Germany won, she could continue her economic expansion with newfound colonial resources. Don't forget the Baghdad To Berlin Railroad ). So everyone bet everything on victory. The only winner was America. She ended up as the premier economy and held most of the gold paid as part of the war loans. But this didn't produce inflation, did it?

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Because gold had already been eclipsed by oil. We got most of Europe's gold, and instead of inflation we got deflation. Recall the lack of inflation from the Coal Age's gold rushes. The Industrial Age's infrastructure build up was financed by all that new gold ( the proxy for coal ), so there was no currency inflation. Just as today, the Federal Reserve shoved tens of Trillions ( T, trillions. Not B, billions ) into the US stock market without inflation ( this is far less effective now of course ). The problem with the Oil Age was that there was so much oil that was invested into its own infrastructure, there was no inflation.

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That was the Great Depression. Yes, the central bank created that event to take over control of the country even more, to cement that. But they were working in a deflationary environment from severe overcapacity. Just as China gave us twenty years of deflation ( as seen by money creation NOT being inflationary ) by industrializing. There was so much plant to turn so much material into goods, the prices went into the toilet from competition ( another strike against capitalism, in the era of the left side of the oil bell curve ). You'll of course note that Corona was about killing capacity.

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Would you care to guess why inflation is making a nice comeback? It isn't because of credit or currency creation from the Fed. Yes, we are exponentially creating more, but we did the exact same thing in 2008, with ten percent yearly inflation. We didn't see inflation because fracking oil resumed energy creation. If you print extra money, but that was offset by extra oil, there is no inflation. Oil had become money, long ago. Gold didn't matter, because oil was the new money. That is how the Fed got away with inflating the gold price 40% in 1933. Oil production countered that.

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Let's review that. If you pump a barrel of oil, you've created that much extra energy. It would be like a farm doubling food one year. The price goes down on that food, so the whole yield can be sold. It is just supply and demand. Oil is ALL created goods. Double the goods, halve the price. Oil production is wealth, not gold. That is why gold was a mere commodity for a hundred years. When the world saw Peak Global Oil in 2005, gold started going back up. When the US had its oil supply shocks in the 70's, gold went back up. When a supply of oil was found, the 80's Alaska oil or the Fracking Oil in about 2009, gold dropped back to commodity pricing ( JUST the cost of extraction ). In other words, enough oil supplants gold as a money unit, not enough oil and gold returns to the currency.

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Gold would be a heck of a lot more expensive right now if we hadn't had the Fracking Oil Decade, but you can be sure gold is going to go back up and relatively quickly. The oil supply is contracting quickly. Allow me to crap in your Cheerios. The US domestic oil production fell SEVENTY-FIVE percent during CY1. In case that math is difficult, we went from 12 million barrels a day to 3. THREE! It is back up now to 6, which probably explains the easing of restrictions on Corona, the increased economic activity. But I don't think production will go up any further. Six million a day is conventional oil. I think almost all the fracking is shut down. If we could have recovered to 12, I think we would have.

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In case your head is up your ass, this means that we have recovered from near zero economy to fifty percent, so any recovery is to HALF of where we were in 2019. I don't think we are close to seeing anything approaching a serious contraction yet. Please recall that the 1970'2 first oil contraction was a mere 5% of our oil from foreigners withheld. We just lost 50%, NOT five. Do you recall the 70's a GOOD time? Not to say it will be a repeat. We could handle a repeat, as that has been the New Normal for decades. Ghetto crime has been normalized. Mass unemployment was normalized. No, we are in for much, much worse.

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That is why I'm not worried about being wrong about the Corona ending. If it ends ( and it almost looks like it is, de facto ), the economy implodes faster, as increased demand for energy cannot be met. Just look at gas prices since we started driving about. That is a tiny taste. I can confidently project $4 gas easy ( most places except California. They are about a buck more than everywhere else ). If Corona lockdowns are lifted, $5 gas. This year. And I could be wildly optimistic. Remember, IF the lockdowns are lifted.

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Energy availabilty is NOT just gasoline prices. It is your jobs, your pensions, your food. I'll remind you again. 2019 saw the failure of the banks and the medical industry. Medical alone was 20% of the economy. 2019 was Peak Fracking Oil, and fracking oil and natural gas has a PROVEN track record of near vertical drop on the right side of bell curve production. We are almost at 24 months since Peak Fracking. Which means there is no return and our oil supply took a huge crap. Meaning, YOUR economy.

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Inflation JUST from oil production crash is going up, big time. That is before bail out debt creation, PetroDollar collapse or anything else is factored in. Gold is going up hugely, going from a commodity back to a precious metal. As will silver, the supply almost non-existent. Of course, if you have gold, don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. It doesn't matter how high the price goes. We are already in the beginning phase of the collapse and precious metals is ONLY good for wealth preservation at that point. It is a parked store of wealth that must be held through the Dark Ages until trade resumes. But, Jim! You studmuffin that all women moisten their loins over, and with better hair than most of all humanity even with a touch of receding hairline, won't we see trade as Russia and China lead the old world in a new bipolar political divide?

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Well, yes and no. China and Russia will lead the non western world, more than likely. But remember what 2030 is. The return of global oil production to 1930 levels. Which means population declines. Russia already shed its excess population when its empire imploded. China has seen a drop in population trendlines from its One Child Policy. They are working the correct trend towards 1930 population. The US and its colonies have NOT. We are working AGAINST the trend. We are screwing ourselves, adding population in a food declining world.

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A bi-polar world isn't an EQUAL world. It can be as easy as a return to two superpowers controlling the rest of the Turd World countries. And guess what? America is already a Turd World. I do NOT engage in hyperbole to sell my pet collapse theory. America will, prior to Balkanization, perhaps still hold sway over western Europe and Latin America ( although probably not much south of the northern Atlantic ). But she is an empire in obvious decline, fighting the trend line in resources. Asia will do much better, and probably bring Africa along for the ride ( I'm not studied enough on Latin America, but surmise less support )

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This is not to say we will see a Chinese Century. Oil Decline will be the tide lowering all boats. Just some faster than others. And China still has a lot of population to shed. While Russia must eventually protect herself from China. So while the US is in for major collapse, Asia suffers less but is only where we were thirty years ago. Kicking the can down the road. Of course, economically Asia has the gold, doesn't she? They weren't stockpiling because they plan on being the new global dollar. I think they see a more old hemisphere hunkering down. Gold will return to historical value, pre-1492 value. And America has one precious metal left, and it ain't gold.

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Lead. We have a good supply of the worlds lead. The unfortunate thing is that you cannot stockpile lead once you need it. You use it or lose it. And then our lead goes from some household centralized holdings to one 55 grain portion per scattered corpse. Still worth salvaging, but no where near as valuable without primers or powder. But that is what a century of oil consumption has left us, as far as wealth. No oil, no gold, but lead.

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As far as our wages, look at where most of us are at. Do most of us earn $1800 a month? Is your household earning $42k a year? Not as close as many as used to. With two workers per household, the historic one ounce of gold a month per worker would dictate that is the average workers wage. And we could get crazy with comparisons and start converting land and food prices, construction materials, transportation and the like into gold. And most likely, what would have been comparable ten years ago is no longer close to that. And I am JUST talking about during the Oil Age.

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I'm not comparing gold earnings to prices from the 1880's. I'm talking about just a hundred years ago. Back when everyday life was about the same. Mass media, mass internal combustion engine, the machine age. 2020 might have been a magical unicorn glitter time of Universal Basic Income ( disguised in other forms such as rent moratoriums, unemployment insurance and Orange Man checks ), but even before that our wages were dropping in real terms of gold pricing and earnings. I don't think 2021 will be as kind.

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Not because “you cannot print the economy indefinitely”, but because our oil supply contracted so much. Everything we are doing now is using embedded energy. That by definition cannot last indefinitely. You have your collapse timeline. It already started the year before last when the fracking oil stopped flowing. And this time, compared to 2008, the can did NOT get kicked down the road. This time, we didn't get any extra time to prepare. Well, you did, a little. I told you in November 2019 the end was nigh, as the banker liquidity crisis became obvious to the most obtuse. You had a quarter of a year you could have gone all in on preps. The last twelve months, no, no more preps are for sale.

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Still want to hold off on food and ammo purchases, regardless of price? I cannot guarantee anything, but I simply do NOT see ammo returning to normal. And food? The situation will get MUCH worse for food. You can go a few weeks without using ammo, not so much with food. I know you Backwoods Home freaks are patting yourself on the back right about now. And you should. But most of them don't see a future outside Great Depression Two. They don't see Rwanda Plus Bosnia. They think fences and dogs with an AR Owner backstop trumping fires.

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Let's review CY1. Billions of dollars in loses, the Mostly Peaceful Protesters killing what retail Corona didn't, and you are safe in the suburbs? The difference between you and I isn't that I'm out of harms way. It is that I KNOW I'm humped. Do you? I at least have an additional 1% chance I'll get my head out of my ass and flee to safety. You are bugging in to disaster. Or, if you know and are at peace, then it is all good. Enjoy what is left, and thank you for increasing the survivors odds by being a lead trap after you stop a fair number of OpFor's. Bless your heart!

( .Y. )

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$1.22 per issue, as many or as few as desired, domestic mail. All overseas readers, $1.99 per issue ( prices subject to change ). That is for a mailed CD, which will contain PDF and MOBI files, extra writing from me when available, and public domain books. This is my cost ( subject to change ), and all that you are required to pay. However, gratuity, tip, donation is encouraged and appreciated on top of the above price ( please specify which amount is which ).

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You may subscribe via e-mail ( when communicating with me, please include your real name as well ). Everyone’s cost is $1 an issue ( with the same plea for extra donations ). You will ONLY receive a PDF file of the monthly magazine, no extra material. The e-mail subscription will only be available while I have access online ( our local library closed for a year, so Going Dark can happen ).

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You can send cash or US postage “forever” stamps, but for safety I encourage checks or money orders instead. OR PayPal me at

paypal.me/jimd303 ( or just use my e-mail at Paypal.com )

Make checks out to James M Dakin. I'm happy to correspond but would appreciate a Self Addressed Stamped Envelop to help me with costs, as this writing income is my only retirement. Free sample with e-mail or through the mail with SASE and SD Card.